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title: I am going from home to-day, and if this byre is not cleaned before… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I am going from home to-day, and if this byre is not cleaned before night comes, so clean that a golden apple will run from end to end of it, not only thou shalt not get my daughter, but 'tis only a drink of thy fresh, goodly, beautiful blood that will quench my thirst this night." Who acts: I, gold
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 104

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I am going from home to-day, and if this byre is not cleaned before night comes, so clean that a golden apple will run from end to end of it, not only thou shalt not get my daughter, but 'tis only a drink of thy fresh, goodly, beautiful blood that will quench my thirst this night."

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**Who acts:** I, golden apple, thou, tis, drink, my · **What happens:** go, not clean, come, run, not get, drink · **To what, where:** home, byre, end, daughter, thirst

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, golden apple, thou, tis), 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:pg7885:31:104
# text = I am going from home to-day, and if this byre is not cleaned before night comes, so clean that a golden apple will run from end to end of it, not only thou shalt not get my daughter, but 'tis only a drink of thy fresh, goodly, beautiful blood that will quench my thirst this night."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
38	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nsubj	_	_
39	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
48	only	only	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
52	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	58	nmod:poss	_	_
53	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
55	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
57	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	nsubj	_	_
60	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl:relcl	_	_
62	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
64	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	65	det	_	_
65	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  | home | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **clean** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | this byre |  |  | night |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | future | a golden apple |  |  |  | from end; to end of byre |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to end=Result |
| 5 | **not** **get** | shall | thou | my daughter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
| 6 | **drink** |  | tis |  |  |  |  | of thy fresh goodly beautiful blood | tree rules |
| 7 | **quench** | future | a drink | my thirst |  |  | night |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer |
| 8 | **thirst** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=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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