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title: So she went back into the house, seized the children and threw them… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she went back into the house, seized the children and threw them into the Llyn, and the goblins in their blue trousers came and saved their dwarfs and the mother had her own children back and so the great strife ended. Who acts: woman, goblins, mother, great strife. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Ta
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 20

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So she went back into the house, seized the children and threw them into the Llyn, and the goblins in their blue trousers came and saved their dwarfs and the mother had her own children back and so the great strife ended.

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**Who acts:** woman, goblins, mother, great strife · **What happens:** go back, seize, throw, come, save, have · **To what, where:** house, children, Llyn, dwarfs, own children

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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 (woman, goblins, mother, great strife), 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:pg7885:32:20
# text = So she went back into the house, seized the children and threw them into the Llyn, and the goblins in their blue trousers came and saved their dwarfs and the mother had her own children back and so the great strife ended.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Llyn	Llyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | woman |  |  | the house |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **seize** | past | woman *not said here* | the children |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | past | woman *not said here* | children *= child* |  | the Llyn |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into llyn=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | the goblins in goblins's blue trousers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **save** | past | the goblins in goblins's blue trousers *not said here* | goblins's dwarfs |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | the mother | woman's own children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 7 | **end** | past | the great strife |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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