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title: Once, when dining with the Lord-Lieutenant, an apology was made to h… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once, when dining with the Lord-Lieutenant, an apology was made to him for placing him so far away from the head of the table. " Who acts: Lord Lieutenant. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 8

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Once, when dining with the Lord-Lieutenant, an apology was made to him for placing him so far away from the head of the table. "

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**Who acts:** Lord Lieutenant · **What happens:** dine, make, place · **To what, where:** apology, man

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord Lieutenant), 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:pg7885:42:8
# text = Once, when dining with the Lord-Lieutenant, an apology was made to him for placing him so far away from the head of the table. "
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	dining	dine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Lieutenant	Lieutenant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the Lord Lieutenant; once *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | the Lord Lieutenant *not said here* | a apology | man |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **place** | gerund | the Lord Lieutenant *not said here* | man |  |  |  | away *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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