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title: Now Prince Llewelyn had a little son a year old with whom Gellert us… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Prince Llewelyn had a little son a year old with whom Gellert used to play, and a terrible thought crossed the Prince's mind that made him rush towards the child's nursery. Who acts: Prince, Gellert, terrible thought, mind. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert, with 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 11

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Now Prince Llewelyn had a little son a year old with whom Gellert used to play, and a terrible thought crossed the Prince's mind that made him rush towards the child's nursery.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Gellert, terrible thought, mind · **What happens:** have, use, play, cross, make, rush · **To what, where:** little son, mind, Gellert, nursery

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Gellert, terrible thought, mind), 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:pg7885:25:11
# text = Now Prince Llewelyn had a little son a year old with whom Gellert used to play, and a terrible thought crossed the Prince's mind that made him rush towards the child's nursery.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Llewelyn	Llewelyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
13	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Prince | a little son |  |  | now | old *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | past | Gellert |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | Gellert *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cross** | past | a terrible thought | the Prince's mind |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | past | the Prince's mind | Gellert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **rush** | infinitive | Gellert *not said here* |  |  | the child's nursery |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards nursery=Destination |
| 7 | **mind** |  | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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