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title: But if she was, the prince of Emania was at her side, and, seizing h… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But if she was, the prince of Emania was at her side, and, seizing her by the foot, he ran with the mare for thirty perches, and never let go of the beautiful lady till the shoe was pulled from her foot, and he was left behind with it in his hand. Who acts: lady, prince, Emania. A sentence of «Celti
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 68

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But if she was, the prince of Emania was at her side, and, seizing her by the foot, he ran with the mare for thirty perches, and never let go of the beautiful lady till the shoe was pulled from her foot, and he was left behind with it in his hand.

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**Who acts:** lady, prince, Emania · **What happens:** be, seize, run, not let, go, pull · **To what, where:** side, lady, shoe, foot, Emania, hand

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, prince, Emania), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:23:68
# text = But if she was, the prince of Emania was at her side, and, seizing her by the foot, he ran with the mare for thirty perches, and never let go of the beautiful lady till the shoe was pulled from her foot, and he was left behind with it in his hand.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Emania	Emania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	perches	perch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
35	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
53	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the prince of Emania |  |  | lady's side |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seize** | gerund | Emania *not said here* | lady |  |  |  | by the foot | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | Emania |  |  |  |  | with the mare; for thirty perches | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for perch=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of the beautiful lady | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of lady=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **pull** | past · passive |  | the shoe |  | lady's foot |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from foot=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **leave behind** | past · passive |  | Emania |  | Emania's hand |  | with side; behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in hand=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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