--- title: So they went up to the castle, but the great lord was not in it, so… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So they went up to the castle, but the great lord was not in it, so they left the purse with the servant that minded the gate, and then they went home again and lived in quiet for a time. Who acts: people, great lord, servant. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Tale of Ivan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/) / 58 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 58 So they went up to the castle, but the great lord was not in it, so they left the purse with the servant that minded the gate, and then they went home again and lived in quiet for a time. **Who acts:** people, great lord, servant · **What happens:** go up, not be, leave, mind, go, live · **To what, where:** castle, purse, gate, quiet 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 (people, great lord, servant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:26:58 # text = So they went up to the castle, but the great lord was not in it, so they left the purse with the servant that minded the gate, and then they went home again and lived in quiet for a time. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 minded mind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 home home ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 obl _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | past | people | | | | | to the castle | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **not** **is** | past | the great lord | | | castle | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | past | people | the purse | | | | with the servant | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent purse=Recipient with servant=Theme | | 4 | **mind** | past | the servant | the gate | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | people | | | | then; again | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **live** | past | people *not said here* | | | quiet | time | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quiet=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/59/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of Ivan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/26/)