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title: The next day three heifers were missing, and the master bade Jack go… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day three heifers were missing, and the master bade Jack go in search of them. Who acts: next day, master bade. 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 82

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The next day three heifers were missing, and the master bade Jack go in search of them.

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**Who acts:** next day, master bade · **What happens:** be, go, search · **To what, where:** search, heifers

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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 (next day, master bade), 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:pg7885:24:82
# text = The next day three heifers were missing, and the master bade Jack go in search of them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	heifers	heifer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the next day |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | the master bade |  |  | search of heifers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | heifers *= heifer* |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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