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title: When they came near the altar, and were no more than about four yard… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came near the altar, and were no more than about four yards from it, the little sheehogue stretched out his foot before the girl, and she fell. Who acts: king, little sheehogue, girl. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, with its depende
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 3

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When they came near the altar, and were no more than about four yards from it, the little sheehogue stretched out his foot before the girl, and she fell.

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**Who acts:** king, little sheehogue, girl · **What happens:** come, not be, stretch out, fall · **To what, where:** altar, foot

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, little sheehogue, girl), 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:pg7885:5:3
# text = When they came near the altar, and were no more than about four yards from it, the little sheehogue stretched out his foot before the girl, and she fell.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sheehogue	sheehogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | king |  |  | the altar |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near altar=Location |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than four yards from altar and the little sheehogue; more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stretch out** | participle | the little sheehogue *not said here* | husband's foot |  |  | before the girl |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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