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title: So they passed the time for a year, until there came a day when Gule… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they passed the time for a year, until there came a day when Guleesh was lying by himself, on the grass, on the last day of the last month in autumn, and he was thinking over again in his own mind of everything that happened to him from the day that he went with the sheehogues across the sea. Who
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 77

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So they passed the time for a year, until there came a day when Guleesh was lying by himself, on the grass, on the last day of the last month in autumn, and he was thinking over again in his own mind of everything that happened to him from the day that he went with the sheehogues across the sea.

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**Who acts:** king, Guleesh · **What happens:** pass, come, lie, think over, happen, go · **To what, where:** grass, own mind, Guleesh, sea, everything

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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, Guleesh), 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:pg7885:5:77
# text = So they passed the time for a year, until there came a day when Guleesh was lying by himself, on the grass, on the last day of the last month in autumn, and he was thinking over again in his own mind of everything that happened to him from the day that he went with the sheehogues across the sea.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
41	over	over	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	again	again	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	46	nmod	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	sheehogues	sheehogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	_
62	across	across	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | king |  |  |  | time; year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | king *not said here* |  |  | the grass; there | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past · progressive | Guleesh |  |  |  |  | by Guleesh | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by himself=Location |
| 4 | **think over** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Guleesh |  |  | Guleesh's own mind of everything | again |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **happen** | past |  |  | Guleesh |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | past | Guleesh |  |  | the sea |  | with the sheehogues | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across sea=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **mind** |  | Guleesh | everything |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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