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title: In a day or two the master bade him go and mind the cows in a field… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In a day or two the master bade him go and mind the cows in a field that had half of it under young corn. " Who acts: master bade, field. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 66

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In a day or two the master bade him go and mind the cows in a field that had half of it under young corn. "

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**Who acts:** master bade, field · **What happens:** go, mind, have · **To what, where:** cows, field, half, young corn

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master bade, field), 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:pg7885:24:66
# text = In a day or two the master bade him go and mind the cows in a field that had half of it under young corn. "
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	master	mast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | the master bade |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mind** | infinitive | the master bade *not said here* | the cows |  | a field |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | a field | half of bade |  | young corn |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |

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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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