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title: One day as he stood by the side of his father on the height of Usna,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day as he stood by the side of his father on the height of Usna, he saw a maiden clad in strange attire coming towards him. Who acts: Conn, strange attire. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 2

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One day as he stood by the side of his father on the height of Usna, he saw a maiden clad in strange attire coming towards him.

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**Who acts:** Conn, strange attire · **What happens:** stand, see, come · **To what, where:** height

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conn, strange attire), 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:pg7885:4:2
# text = One day as he stood by the side of his father on the height of Usna, he saw a maiden clad in strange attire coming towards him.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Usna	Usna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	clad	clad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Conn |  |  | the height of Usna | day | by the side of Conn's father | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | Conn |  |  |  |  | clad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | strange attire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards Conn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial\_Location |

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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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