--- title: She bent her head, to show him she was obliged, and gave him to unde… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She bent her head, to show him she was obliged, and gave him to understand that she was ready to follow him any place he was going. " Who acts: priest, Glory. 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" **Who acts:** priest, Glory · **What happens:** bend, show, oblige, give, understand, be · **To what, where:** head, Glory, priest, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (priest, Glory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:5:49 # text = She bent her head, to show him she was obliged, and gave him to understand that she was ready to follow him any place he was going. " 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend** | past | priest | priest's head | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | priest *not said here* | | Glory | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **oblige** | past · passive | | priest | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **give** | past | priest *not said here* | | Glory | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **understand** | to-infinitive | priest *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | past | priest | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **follow** | to-infinitive | priest *not said here* | Glory | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme place=Attribute | | 8 | **go** | past · progressive | Glory | any place *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/50/) - ↑ back to [Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/)