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title: And robbers fell upon them before they had gone far from Ivan as the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And robbers fell upon them before they had gone far from Ivan as they were going by the fields of the houses in the meadow. Who acts: robbers. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 25

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And robbers fell upon them before they had gone far from Ivan as they were going by the fields of the houses in the meadow.

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**Who acts:** robbers · **What happens:** fall, go · **To what, where:** Ivan, meadow

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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 (robbers), 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:pg7885:26:25
# text = And robbers fell upon them before they had gone far from Ivan as they were going by the fields of the houses in the meadow.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | robbers |  |  |  |  | upon man | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | robbers *= robber* |  |  | Ivan |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from ivan=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | robbers *= robber* |  |  | the meadow |  | by the fields of the houses | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by field=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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