--- title: She beckoned to him to come a bit nearer to her, and she said her na… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She beckoned to him to come a bit nearer to her, and she said her name was Auburn Mary but she told him to go this time, but to be sure to be at the same place about that dead midnight. Who acts: mother, name. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, name), 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:pg7885:31:92 # text = She beckoned to him to come a bit nearer to her, and she said her name was Auburn Mary but she told him to go this time, but to be sure to be at the same place about that dead midnight. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 beckoned beckon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 Auburn Auburn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 20 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 ccomp _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 42 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beckon** | past | mother | | giant | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | a bit | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | mother's name | Auburn | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | mother | | giant | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | | | | time | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | the same place | midnight | | tree rules | | 9 | **name** | | mother | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/93/) - ↑ back to [The Battle of the Birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/)