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title: Another took his place, and another, and another, and then half a do… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Another took his place, and another, and another, and then half a dozen at once, and Tom sent swords, helmets, shields, and bodies, rolling over and over, and themselves bawling out that they were kilt, and disabled, and damaged, and rubbing their poor elbows and hips, and limping away. Who acts: An
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 39

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Another took his place, and another, and another, and then half a dozen at once, and Tom sent swords, helmets, shields, and bodies, rolling over and over, and themselves bawling out that they were kilt, and disabled, and damaged, and rubbing their poor elbows and hips, and limping away.

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**Who acts:** Another, Tom, swords, rubbing · **What happens:** take, send, roll, bawl out, be, disable · **To what, where:** place, swords, kilt, poor elbows

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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 (Another, Tom, swords, rubbing), 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:pg7885:33:39
# text = Another took his place, and another, and another, and then half a dozen at once, and Tom sent swords, helmets, shields, and bodies, rolling over and over, and themselves bawling out that they were kilt, and disabled, and damaged, and rubbing their poor elbows and hips, and limping away.
1	Another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	over	over	ADV	RB	_	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	nsubj	_	_
39	bawling	bawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	kilt	kilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	disabled	disable	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
53	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	61	csubj	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	hips	hip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	limping	limp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
62	away	away	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Another | Tom's place |  |  |  | half dozen *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | Tom | swords and helmets and shields |  |  |  | bodies *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bawl out** *speech: other* | gerund | swords *= sword* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | swords *= sword* | kilt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **disable** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **damage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **rub** | gerund |  | swords's poor elbows and hips |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme |
| 9 | **limp away** | gerund | rubbing |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «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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