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title: Sir William Temple knew of a north-country gentleman of Ireland who… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sir William Temple knew of a north-country gentleman of Ireland who was sent to sleep every evening with a fresh tale from his bard. Who acts: William. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 24

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Sir William Temple knew of a north-country gentleman of Ireland who was sent to sleep every evening with a fresh tale from his bard.

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**Who acts:** William · **What happens:** know, send, sleep · **To what, where:** country gentleman

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (William), 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:pg7885:34:24
# text = Sir William Temple knew of a north-country gentleman of Ireland who was sent to sleep every evening with a fresh tale from his bard.
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | William  Sir |  |  |  |  | of a country gentleman of Ireland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of gentleman=Stimulus |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | a country gentleman of Ireland |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | evening | with a fresh tale from William's bard | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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