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title: MAN OR WOMAN BOY OR GIRL THAT READS WHAT FOLLOWS 3 TIMES SHALL FALL… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: MAN OR WOMAN BOY OR GIRL THAT READS WHAT FOLLOWS 3 TIMES SHALL FALL ASLEEP AN HUNDRED YEARS Who acts: GIRL, MAN. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 100

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MAN OR WOMAN BOY OR GIRL THAT READS WHAT FOLLOWS 3 TIMES SHALL FALL ASLEEP AN HUNDRED YEARS

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**Who acts:** GIRL, MAN · **What happens:** read, follow, fall

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (GIRL, MAN), 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:pg7885:33:100
# text = MAN OR WOMAN BOY OR GIRL THAT READS WHAT FOLLOWS 3 TIMES SHALL FALL ASLEEP AN HUNDRED YEARS
1	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	OR	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	WOMAN	woman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	BOY	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	OR	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	GIRL	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	THAT	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	READS	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	WHAT	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	FOLLOWS	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	TIMES	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	SHALL	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	FALL	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	ASLEEP	asleep	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	AN	an	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	HUNDRED	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	YEARS	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | GIRL |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | present |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | shall | MAN of WOMAN BOY or GIRL |  |  |  | year | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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