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title: But when my grandfather clapped eyes on him, he knew him for Patrick… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when my grandfather clapped eyes on him, he knew him for Patrick Rooney, and all the world knew _he'd_ gone overboard, fishing one night long years before. Who acts: grandfather, world. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 33

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But when my grandfather clapped eyes on him, he knew him for Patrick Rooney, and all the world knew \_he'd\_ gone overboard, fishing one night long years before.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, world · **What happens:** clap, know, \_, go, fish · **To what, where:** eyes, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (grandfather, world), 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:pg7885:27:33
# text = But when my grandfather clapped eyes on him, he knew him for Patrick Rooney, and all the world knew _he'd_ gone overboard, fishing one night long years before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	Rooney	Rooney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
27	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clap** | past | my grandfather | eyes |  |  |  | on man | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | grandfather | man |  |  |  | for Patrick | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | past | all world |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **\_** | would | world |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | participle | world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | overboard *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fish** | gerund | world *not said here* |  |  |  | night; year |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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