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title: But just beside him lay the body of a great gaunt wolf all torn to p… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But just beside him lay the body of a great gaunt wolf all torn to pieces and covered with blood. Who acts: cry. 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 18

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But just beside him lay the body of a great gaunt wolf all torn to pieces and covered with blood.

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**Who acts:** cry · **What happens:** lie, tear, cover · **To what, where:** body, pieces

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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 (cry), 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:pg7885:25:18
# text = But just beside him lay the body of a great gaunt wolf all torn to pieces and covered with blood.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	conj	_	_
14	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | cry | the body of a great gaunt wolf |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme |
| 2 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with blood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP 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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