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description: Well, she went and came back as soon as she could, but on her way back she was frightened to see some old elves of the blue petticoat crossing her path though it was midday. Who acts: cot, blue petticoat, way. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells, with its depend
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 5

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Well, she went and came back as soon as she could, but on her way back she was frightened to see some old elves of the blue petticoat crossing her path though it was midday.

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**Who acts:** cot, blue petticoat, way · **What happens:** go, come back, frighten, see, cross, be · **To what, where:** way, old elves, path, midday

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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, blue petticoat, way), 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:pg7885:32:5
# text = Well, she went and came back as soon as she could, but on her way back she was frightened to see some old elves of the blue petticoat crossing her path though it was midday.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | cot |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** | past | cot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | cot's way |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | some old elves of the blue petticoat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elf=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cross** | gerund | the blue petticoat *not said here* | cot's path |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | past | way | midday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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