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title: Look around as he might, indoors and out, he could find no creature… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Look around as he might, indoors and out, he could find no creature with two legs or four, for his horse was gone. Who acts: you, Andrew, horse. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 15

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Look around as he might, indoors and out, he could find no creature with two legs or four, for his horse was gone.

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**Who acts:** you, Andrew, horse · **What happens:** look around, find, be · **To what, where:** creature

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Andrew, horse), 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:pg7885:27:15
# text = Look around as he might, indoors and out, he could find no creature with two legs or four, for his horse was gone.
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look around** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around, indoors *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | could | Andrew | no creature |  |  |  | with two legs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | Andrew's horse |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | 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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