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title: The very next morning the hostess raised the cry that her husband wa… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The very next morning the hostess raised the cry that her husband was murdered, and as there was neither man nor child in the house but the merchants, she declared they ought to be hanged for it. Who acts: hostess, cry. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan, with its 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 43

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The very next morning the hostess raised the cry that her husband was murdered, and as there was neither man nor child in the house but the merchants, she declared they ought to be hanged for it.

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**Who acts:** hostess, cry · **What happens:** raise, murder, be, hange · **To what, where:** cry, husband, man

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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 (hostess, cry), 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:pg7885:26:43
# text = The very next morning the hostess raised the cry that her husband was murdered, and as there was neither man nor child in the house but the merchants, she declared they ought to be hanged for it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hostess	hostess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
20	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc:preconj	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	parataxis	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | the hostess | the cry |  |  | morning |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 2 | **murder** | past · passive | the cry *not said here* | hostess's husband |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | hostess |  |  |  |  | declare *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hange** | ought · passive |  | man |  |  |  | for house | tree rules |

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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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