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title: She came home as fast as the mare could carry her, and was thinking… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She came home as fast as the mare could carry her, and was thinking all the time that the henwife would kill her for losing the shoe. Who acts: lady, mare, henwife. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 69

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She came home as fast as the mare could carry her, and was thinking all the time that the henwife would kill her for losing the shoe.

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**Who acts:** lady, mare, henwife · **What happens:** come, carry, think, kill, lose · **To what, where:** lady, shoe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, mare, henwife), 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:pg7885:23:69
# text = She came home as fast as the mare could carry her, and was thinking all the time that the henwife would kill her for losing the shoe.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	henwife	henwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | lady |  |  |  |  | fast, home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | could | the mare | lady |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | lady *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** | would | the henwife | lady |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | gerund | the henwife *not said here* | the shoe |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality |

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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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