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title: On a day of days when the giant was from home, the lad heard the swe… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On a day of days when the giant was from home, the lad heard the sweetest music he ever heard in a room at the top of the giant's house. Who acts: giant, lad. 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 90

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On a day of days when the giant was from home, the lad heard the sweetest music he ever heard in a room at the top of the giant's house.

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**Who acts:** giant, lad · **What happens:** be, hear · **To what, where:** home, sweetest music, room

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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 (giant, lad), 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:pg7885:31:90
# text = On a day of days when the giant was from home, the lad heard the sweetest music he ever heard in a room at the top of the giant's house.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the giant |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the lad | the sweetest music |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** | past | giant | the sweetest music *not said here* |  | a room | ever | at the top of the giant's house | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |

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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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