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title: So there was no more fighting that day, and Tom was invited to dine… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So there was no more fighting that day, and Tom was invited to dine with the royal family. Who acts: Tom. 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 43

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So there was no more fighting that day, and Tom was invited to dine with the royal family.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** not be, invite, dine · **To what, where:** more fighting, Tom

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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 (Tom), 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:pg7885:33:43
# text = So there was no more fighting that day, and Tom was invited to dine with the royal family.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | more fighting |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **invite** | past · passive |  | Tom |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **dine** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the royal family | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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