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title: However, in he walked, after tying up his horse, and right welcome w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: However, in he walked, after tying up his horse, and right welcome was the brushwood fire blazing on the hearth. Who acts: clearing, right welcome, brushwood fire. 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 7

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However, in he walked, after tying up his horse, and right welcome was the brushwood fire blazing on the hearth.

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**Who acts:** clearing, right welcome, brushwood fire · **What happens:** walk, tie up, be, blaze · **To what, where:** horse, brushwood fire, hearth

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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 (clearing, right welcome, brushwood fire), 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:pg7885:27:7
# text = However, in he walked, after tying up his horse, and right welcome was the brushwood fire blazing on the hearth.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	tying	tie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | clearing |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tie up** | gerund | clearing *not said here* | clearing's horse |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | right welcome | the brushwood fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **blaze** | gerund | the brushwood fire *not said here* |  |  | the hearth |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hearth=Location |

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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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