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title: So he blew a louder blast on his horn and called Gellert by name, bu… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he blew a louder blast on his horn and called Gellert by name, but still the greyhound did not come. Who acts: Gellert, greyhound. 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 5

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So he blew a louder blast on his horn and called Gellert by name, but still the greyhound did not come.

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**Who acts:** Gellert, greyhound · **What happens:** blow, call, not come · **To what, where:** louder blast, horn, Gellert · **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 (Gellert, greyhound), 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:pg7885:25:5
# text = So he blew a louder blast on his horn and called Gellert by name, but still the greyhound did not come.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | Gellert | a louder blast |  | Gellert's horn |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | past | Gellert *not said here* |  | Gellert |  |  | by name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gellert=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | the greyhound |  |  |  | still |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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