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title: Then Coran the Druid stood forth and chanted his spells towards the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Coran the Druid stood forth and chanted his spells towards the spot where the maiden's voice had been heard. Who acts: Coran. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 21

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Then Coran the Druid stood forth and chanted his spells towards the spot where the maiden's voice had been heard.

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**Who acts:** Coran · **What happens:** stand, chant, hear, spell · **To what, where:** spells, voice

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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 (Coran), 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:pg7885:4:21
# text = Then Coran the Druid stood forth and chanted his spells towards the spot where the maiden's voice had been heard.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Coran	Coran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	chanted	chant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | Coran |  |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chant** | past | Coran *not said here* | Coran's spells |  |  |  | towards the spot | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spell=Topic towards spot=Recipient |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the maiden's voice |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **spell** |  | Coran |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=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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