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title: At last Prince Llewelyn could wait no longer and went off to the hun… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last Prince Llewelyn could wait no longer and went off to the hunt without Gellert. Who acts: Llewelyn. 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 6

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At last Prince Llewelyn could wait no longer and went off to the hunt without Gellert.

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**Who acts:** Llewelyn · **What happens:** wait, go off

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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 (Llewelyn), 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:pg7885:25:6
# text = At last Prince Llewelyn could wait no longer and went off to the hunt without Gellert.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Llewelyn	Llewelyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | could | Llewelyn |  |  |  |  | at last Prince; long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prince=Location |
| 2 | **go off** | past | Llewelyn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the hunt; without Gellert | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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