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title: Well, he travelled and travelled, till he came in sight of the walls… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, he travelled and travelled, till he came in sight of the walls of hell; and, bedad, before he knocked at the gates, he rubbed himself over with the greenish ointment. Who acts: Redhead. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tree an
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 69

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Well, he travelled and travelled, till he came in sight of the walls of hell; and, bedad, before he knocked at the gates, he rubbed himself over with the greenish ointment.

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**Who acts:** Redhead · **What happens:** travel, come, knock, rub over, sight · **To what, where:** sight, bedad, gates, walls

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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 (Redhead), 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:pg7885:33:69
# text = Well, he travelled and travelled, till he came in sight of the walls of hell; and, bedad, before he knocked at the gates, he rubbed himself over with the greenish ointment.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	bedad	bedad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	greenish	greenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	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 | **travel** | past | Redhead |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | past | Redhead *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Redhead |  |  | sight of the walls of hell |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 4 | **knock** | past | Redhead | bedad *not said here* |  | the gates |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bedad=Theme at gate=Destination |
| 5 | **rub over** | past | Redhead | bedad |  |  |  | with the greenish ointment | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with ointment=Theme |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | the walls of hell |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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