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title: She did not much like going and leaving her little ones all alone in… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She did not much like going and leaving her little ones all alone in a solitary house, especially as she had heard tell of the good folk haunting the neighbourhood. Who acts: cot, good folk. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 4

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She did not much like going and leaving her little ones all alone in a solitary house, especially as she had heard tell of the good folk haunting the neighbourhood.

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**Who acts:** cot, good folk · **What happens:** go, leave, hear, haunt · **To what, where:** heard tell, little ones, solitary house, neighbourhood

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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 (cot, good folk), 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:pg7885:32:4
# text = She did not much like going and leaving her little ones all alone in a solitary house, especially as she had heard tell of the good folk haunting the neighbourhood.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	solitary	solitary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	haunting	haunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | cot | heard tell of the good folk |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | cot *not said here* | cot's little ones |  | a solitary house |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme in house=Location |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | cot |  |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **haunt** | gerund | the good folk *not said here* | the neighbourhood |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neighbourhood=Experiencer |

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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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