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title: You may be sure no other body went near it; and when the early riser… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You may be sure no other body went near it; and when the early risers were passing next morning, they found two long clefts in the stone, where it was after burning itself an opening downwards, nobody could tell how far. Who acts: You, other body, early risers, risers. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Ta
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 96

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You may be sure no other body went near it; and when the early risers were passing next morning, they found two long clefts in the stone, where it was after burning itself an opening downwards, nobody could tell how far.

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**Who acts:** You, other body, early risers, risers, palace, nobody · **What happens:** be, go, pass, find, burn, open · **To what, where:** palace, two long clefts, stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, other body, early risers, risers), 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:pg7885:33:96
# text = You may be sure no other body went near it; and when the early risers were passing next morning, they found two long clefts in the stone, where it was after burning itself an opening downwards, nobody could tell how far.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	risers	riser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	clefts	cleft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
36	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
39	downwards	downwards	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	43	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
44	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
45	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | You |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | no other body |  |  | palace |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near it=Location |
| 3 | **pass** | past · progressive | the early risers |  |  |  | morning |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | risers *= riser* | two long clefts |  | the stone |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleft=Topic |
| 5 | **burn** | past · progressive | palace | palace |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 6 | **open** | gerund | palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | downwards *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | nobody |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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