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title: Again there fell three other grains of barley, and the silver pigeon… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Again there fell three other grains of barley, and the silver pigeon sprung, and ate that up as before. Who acts: silver pigeon. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 257

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Again there fell three other grains of barley, and the silver pigeon sprung, and ate that up as before.

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**Who acts:** silver pigeon · **What happens:** fall, spring, eat up · **To what, where:** three other grains, that

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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 (silver pigeon), 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:pg7885:31:257
# text = Again there fell three other grains of barley, and the silver pigeon sprung, and ate that up as before.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past |  | three other grains of barley |  | there | again |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient grain=Result |
| 2 | **spring** | participle | the silver pigeon |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **eat up** | past |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

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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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