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title: As Gellert raised his dying yell, a little child's cry answered it f… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As Gellert raised his dying yell, a little child's cry answered it from beneath the cradle, and there Llewelyn found his child unharmed and just awakened from sleep. Who acts: Gellert, cry, little child. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert, with its dependency tree and 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 17

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As Gellert raised his dying yell, a little child's cry answered it from beneath the cradle, and there Llewelyn found his child unharmed and just awakened from sleep.

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**Who acts:** Gellert, cry, little child · **What happens:** raise, die, answer, find, awaken, yell · **To what, where:** dying yell, yell, cradle, child, sleep

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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 (Gellert, cry, little child), 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:pg7885:25:17
# text = As Gellert raised his dying yell, a little child's cry answered it from beneath the cradle, and there Llewelyn found his child unharmed and just awakened from sleep.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	yell	yell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
22	Llewelyn	Llewelyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | Gellert | Gellert's dying yell |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a little child's cry | yell |  | the cradle |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** | past | a little child's cry *not said here* | Gellert's child |  | there |  | unharmed *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic |
| 5 | **awaken** | participle | a little child's cry *not said here* |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **yell** |  | Gellert |  |  |  |  |  | nom yell «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **cry** |  | a little child |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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