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title: There was the finest rath a little way off from the gable of the hou… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was the finest rath a little way off from the gable of the house, and he was often in the habit of seating himself on the fine grass bank that was running round it. Who acts: finest rath, way, habit, fine grass bank. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Mai
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 48

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There was the finest rath a little way off from the gable of the house, and he was often in the habit of seating himself on the fine grass bank that was running round it.

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**Who acts:** finest rath, way, habit, fine grass bank · **What happens:** be, seat, run · **To what, where:** habit, way, fine grass bank, rath

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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 (finest rath, way, habit, fine grass bank), 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:pg7885:4:48
# text = There was the finest rath a little way off from the gable of the house, and he was often in the habit of seating himself on the fine grass bank that was running round it.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	rath	rath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
9	off	off	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gable	gable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	seating	seat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	round	round	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the finest rath |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | way |  |  | the habit |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seat** | gerund | the habit *not said here* | way |  | the fine grass bank |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 4 | **run** | past · progressive | the fine grass bank |  |  | rath |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory |

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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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