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title: At least he thought so, for seeing a branch handy he swung himself u… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At least he thought so, for seeing a branch handy he swung himself up by it and was soon snugly hidden away. Who acts: Andrew. 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 41

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At least he thought so, for seeing a branch handy he swung himself up by it and was soon snugly hidden away.

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**Who acts:** Andrew · **What happens:** think, see, swing up, hide away · **To what, where:** least, branch, Andrew

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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 (Andrew), 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:pg7885:27:41
# text = At least he thought so, for seeing a branch handy he swung himself up by it and was soon snugly hidden away.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	handy	handy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	snugly	snugly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Andrew |  |  | least |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | Andrew *not said here* | a branch |  |  |  | handy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Stimulus |
| 3 | **swing up** | past | Andrew | Andrew |  |  |  | by branch | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by it=Location |
| 4 | **hide away** | past · passive | Andrew *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, snugly, soon *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V» |

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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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