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title: Now there was soon to be a harvest of rye and oats, so the Wise Man… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there was soon to be a harvest of rye and oats, so the Wise Man said to her, "When you are getting dinner for the reapers, clear out the shell of a hen's egg and boil some potage in it, and then take it to the door as if you meant it as a dinner for the reapers. Who acts: Wise Man, woman. A sent
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 13

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Now there was soon to be a harvest of rye and oats, so the Wise Man said to her, "When you are getting dinner for the reapers, clear out the shell of a hen's egg and boil some potage in it, and then take it to the door as if you meant it as a dinner for the reapers.

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**Who acts:** Wise Man, woman · **What happens:** be, say, get, clear out, boil, take · **To what, where:** harvest, woman, dinner, shell, potage, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wise Man, woman), 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:pg7885:32:13
# text = Now there was soon to be a harvest of rye and oats, so the Wise Man said to her, "When you are getting dinner for the reapers, clear out the shell of a hen's egg and boil some potage in it, and then take it to the door as if you meant it as a dinner for the reapers.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
27	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	reapers	reaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	boil	boil	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
43	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	potage	potage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
50	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	as	as	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
63	for	for	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	reapers	reaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a harvest |  |  |  | of rye and oats | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Wise Man |  | woman |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · progressive | woman | dinner |  |  |  | for the reapers | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme for reaper=Source |
| 4 | **clear out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the shell of a hen's egg |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shell=Source |
| 5 | **boil** *in a quote* | present |  | some potage |  |  |  | in potage | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent potage=Patient in it=Instrument |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | shell |  | the door | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to door=Destination |
| 7 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | woman | shell |  |  |  | as a dinner for the reapers | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Topic as dinner=Attribute |

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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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