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title: He turned back in a rage to his castle, and as he came to the gate,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He turned back in a rage to his castle, and as he came to the gate, who should he see but Gellert come bounding out to meet him. Who acts: Gellert. 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 8

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He turned back in a rage to his castle, and as he came to the gate, who should he see but Gellert come bounding out to meet him.

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**Who acts:** Gellert · **What happens:** turn back, come, see, bound out, meet · **To what, where:** rage, gate, Gellert

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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), 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:pg7885:1737`): 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:pg7885:25:8
# text = He turned back in a rage to his castle, and as he came to the gate, who should he see but Gellert come bounding out to meet him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	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	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
23	but	but	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	xcomp	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | past | Gellert |  |  | a rage |  | to Gellert's castle | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to castle=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | Gellert |  |  | the gate |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | should | Gellert |  |  |  |  | but Gellert | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | Gellert *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bound out** | gerund | Gellert *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Gellert *not said here* | Gellert |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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:** 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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