--- title: So when the day of the reap came the woman did all that the Wise Man… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So when the day of the reap came the woman did all that the Wise Man ordered, and put the eggshell on the fire and took it off and carried it to the door, and there she stood and listened. Who acts: day, woman, Wise Man. 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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 (day, woman, Wise Man), 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:pg7885:32:17 # text = So when the day of the reap came the woman did all that the Wise Man ordered, and put the eggshell on the fire and took it off and carried it to the door, and there she stood and listened. 1 So so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 reap reap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 eggshell eggshell NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the day of the reap | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | the woman | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **order** | past | the Wise Man | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | the day of the reap *not said here* | the eggshell | | the fire | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eggshell=Theme on fire=Destination | | 5 | **take off** | past | the day of the reap *not said here* | eggshell | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | past | the day of the reap *not said here* | eggshell | | the door | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to door=Destination | | 7 | **stand** | past | woman | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **listen** | past | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/32/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/32/18/) - ↑ back to [Brewery of Eggshells](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/32/)