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title: After that they agreed for another year at the old wages, and at the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After that they agreed for another year at the old wages, and at the end of it Ivan took instead a piece of advice, and this was it: "Never lodge where an old man is married to a young woman." Who acts: man, Ivan, this, advice. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan, w
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 13

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After that they agreed for another year at the old wages, and at the end of it Ivan took instead a piece of advice, and this was it: "Never lodge where an old man is married to a young woman."

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**Who acts:** man, Ivan, this, advice · **What happens:** agree, take, be, not lodge, marry · **To what, where:** old wages, end, advice, old man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Ivan, this, advice), 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:pg7885:26:13
# text = After that they agreed for another year at the old wages, and at the end of it Ivan took instead a piece of advice, and this was it: "Never lodge where an old man is married to a young woman."
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	lodge	lodge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | man |  |  | the old wages | after that; year |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Ivan |  |  |  | at the end of sake | instead a piece of advice | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | advice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **lodge** *in a quote* | infinitive | advice |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **marry** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | a old man |  |  |  | to a young woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to woman=Co-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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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