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title: He rushed into it and found the child's cradle overturned and daubed… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He rushed into it and found the child's cradle overturned and daubed with blood. Who acts: thought, cradle. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 13

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He rushed into it and found the child's cradle overturned and daubed with blood.

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**Who acts:** thought, cradle · **What happens:** rush, find, overturn, daub · **To what, where:** disorder · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thought, cradle), 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:pg7885:25:13
# text = He rushed into it and found the child's cradle overturned and daubed with blood.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	overturned	overturn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	daubed	daub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | thought |  |  | disorder |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | past | thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **overturn** | past | the child's cradle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **daub** | participle | the child's cradle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with blood | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme |

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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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