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title: Three other grains fall, and the silver pigeon sprung, and ate that… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Three other grains fall, and the silver pigeon sprung, and ate that up. Who acts: Three other grains, 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 259

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Three other grains fall, and the silver pigeon sprung, and ate that up.

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**Who acts:** Three other grains, silver pigeon · **What happens:** fall, spring, eat up · **To what, where:** 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 (Three other grains, 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:pg7885:31:259
# text = Three other grains fall, and the silver pigeon sprung, and ate that up.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | Three other grains |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spring** | participle | the silver pigeon |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **eat up** | past | the silver pigeon *not said here* | 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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