---
title: _, 148), "it is the ornament which his mind hangs on the frame of th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _, 148), "it is the ornament which his mind hangs on the frame of the story." Who acts: narrator, mind, man. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/39/29/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [V. Conal Yellowclaw.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/39/) / 29

# Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 29

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\_, 148), "it is the ornament which his mind hangs on the frame of the story."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** narrator, mind, man · **What happens:** be, hang, mind · **To what, where:** ornament, frame

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (narrator, mind, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7885:39:29
# text = _, 148), "it is the ornament which his mind hangs on the frame of the story."
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	148	148	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | narrator | the ornament |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** *in a quote* | present | man's mind | the ornament |  | the frame of the story |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme on frame=Destination |
| 3 | **mind** *in a quote* |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/39/28/)
- next →: [VI. Hudden and Dudden., 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/1/)
- ↑ back to [V. Conal Yellowclaw.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/39/)