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title: 52 4, in which a "woman of peace" (a fairy) borrows a woman's kettle… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 52 4, in which a "woman of peace" (a fairy) borrows a woman's kettle and returns it with flesh in it, but at last the woman refuses, and is persecuted by the fairy. Who acts: 52 4, fairy. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 7

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52 4, in which a "woman of peace" (a fairy) borrows a woman's kettle and returns it with flesh in it, but at last the woman refuses, and is persecuted by the fairy.

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**Who acts:** 52 4, fairy · **What happens:** borrow, return, refuse, persecute · **To what, where:** kettle, flesh, last

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (52 4, fairy), 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:pg7885:38:7
# text = 52 4, in which a "woman of peace" (a fairy) borrows a woman's kettle and returns it with flesh in it, but at last the woman refuses, and is persecuted by the fairy.
1	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	borrows	borrow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
34	refuses	refuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	persecuted	persecute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | present | 52 4 | a woman's kettle |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | present | 52 4 *not said here* | kettle |  | flesh |  | with flesh | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **refuse** | present | 52 4 *not said here* |  |  | last |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **persecute** | present · passive | the fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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