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title: Gellert had stayed behind to guard the child and had fought and slai… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Gellert had stayed behind to guard the child and had fought and slain the wolf that had tried to destroy Llewelyn's heir. Who acts: Gellert, wolf. 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 20

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Gellert had stayed behind to guard the child and had fought and slain the wolf that had tried to destroy Llewelyn's heir.

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**Who acts:** Gellert, wolf · **What happens:** stay, guard, fight, slay, try, destroy · **To what, where:** child, wolf, heir

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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, wolf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7885:1749`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:25:20
# text = Gellert had stayed behind to guard the child and had fought and slain the wolf that had tried to destroy Llewelyn's heir.
1	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	Llewelyn	Llewelyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · perfect | Gellert |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **guard** | to-infinitive | Gellert *not said here* |  | the child |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **fight** | past · perfect | Gellert *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **slay** | participle | Gellert *not said here* | the wolf |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient |
| 5 | **try** | past · perfect | the wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **destroy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the wolf *not said here* | Llewelyn's heir |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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