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title: So he took fair leave of them and travelled towards home, and at las… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took fair leave of them and travelled towards home, and at last he came to Wayn Her, and there he met three merchants from Tre Rhyn, of his own parish, coming home from Exeter Fair. " Who acts: Ivan. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan, with its dependency tre
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 18

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So he took fair leave of them and travelled towards home, and at last he came to Wayn Her, and there he met three merchants from Tre Rhyn, of his own parish, coming home from Exeter Fair. "

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**Who acts:** Ivan · **What happens:** take, travel, come, meet · **To what, where:** fair leave, home, Wayn, last, three merchants, Tre

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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 (Ivan), 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:pg7885:26:18
# text = So he took fair leave of them and travelled towards home, and at last he came to Wayn Her, and there he met three merchants from Tre Rhyn, of his own parish, coming home from Exeter Fair. "
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	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Wayn	Wayn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Tre	Tre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	Rhyn	Rhyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
38	home	home	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	Exeter	Exeter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Ivan | fair leave of wages |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | past | Ivan *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards home=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | past | Ivan |  | Wayn | last |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wayn=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **meet** | past | Ivan | three merchants |  | Tre; there |  | of Ivan's own parish | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | Ivan *not said here* |  |  | Exeter Fair |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from fair=Initial\_Location |

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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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