--- title: The shoemaker was going to the castle with the shoes of the young pe… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The shoemaker was going to the castle with the shoes of the young people, and the girl said to the shoemaker, "I would like to get a sight of the king's son before he marries." Who acts: shoemaker, girl. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/250/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Battle of the Birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/) / 250 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 250 The shoemaker was going to the castle with the shoes of the young people, and the girl said to the shoemaker, "I would like to get a sight of the king's son before he marries." **Who acts:** shoemaker, girl · **What happens:** go, say, like, get, marry, sight · **To what, where:** castle, shoemaker, sight, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (shoemaker, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:31:250 # text = The shoemaker was going to the castle with the shoes of the young people, and the girl said to the shoemaker, "I would like to get a sight of the king's son before he marries." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shoemaker shoemaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shoemaker shoemaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 37 before before SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 marries marry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · progressive | the shoemaker | | | the castle with the shoes of the young people | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the girl | | the shoemaker | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to shoemaker=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | would | the girl *= girl* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **get** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the girl *= girl* *not said here* | a sight of the king's son | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | | 5 | **marry** *in a quote* | present | shoemaker | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **sight** *in a quote* | | | the king's son | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 249](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/249/) - next →: [sentence 251](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/251/) - ↑ back to [The Battle of the Birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/)