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title: _Parallels_.--Mr. Macleod heard another version in which "Gold Tree"… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Mr. Macleod heard another version in which "Gold Tree" (anonymous in this variant) is bewitched to kill her father's horse, dog, and cock. Who acts: Parallels. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree., sentence 3

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\_Parallels\_.--Mr. Macleod heard another version in which "Gold Tree" (anonymous in this variant) is bewitched to kill her father's horse, dog, and cock.

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**Who acts:** Parallels · **What happens:** hear, bewitch, kill · **To what, where:** version, Gold Tree, horse

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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:pg7885:45:3
# text = _Parallels_.--Mr. Macleod heard another version in which "Gold Tree" (anonymous in this variant) is bewitched to kill her father's horse, dog, and cock.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Macleod	Macleod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Gold	Gold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	anonymous	anonymous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	appos	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Parallels  Macleod  Mr. | another version |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer version=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bewitch** | present · passive |  | Gold Tree |  | another version |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | Mr.'s father's horse and dog |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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