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title: Then their two roads separated, and though the merchants wished Ivan… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then their two roads separated, and though the merchants wished Ivan to go with them, he would not go with them, but went straight home to his wife. Who acts: two roads, merchants, road. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 53

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Then their two roads separated, and though the merchants wished Ivan to go with them, he would not go with them, but went straight home to his wife.

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**Who acts:** two roads, merchants, road · **What happens:** separate, wish, go, not go · **To what, where:** Ivan

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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 (two roads, merchants, road), 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:pg7885:26:53
# text = Then their two roads separated, and though the merchants wished Ivan to go with them, he would not go with them, but went straight home to his wife.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
12	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	home	home	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | participle | merchants's two roads |  |  |  | then |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **wish** | past | the merchants | Ivan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the merchants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with merchants *= merchant* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **not** **go** | would | road |  |  |  |  | with merchants *= merchant* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **go** | past | merchants's two roads *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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