--- title: Out of the door of the palace they went, without being stopped or hi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Out of the door of the palace they went, without being stopped or hindered, for nobody saw them, and, "My horse, my bridle, and saddle!" says every man of them. " Who acts: words, nobody, saddle. 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" **Who acts:** words, nobody, saddle · **What happens:** go, stop, hinder, see, say · **To what, where:** door, words · **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 (words, nobody, saddle), 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:pg7885:5:8 # text = Out of the door of the palace they went, without being stopped or hindered, for nobody saw them, and, "My horse, my bridle, and saddle!" says every man of them. " 1 Out out ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 without without SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hindered hinder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj _ _ 19 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 bridle bridle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 35 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 36 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | words *= word* | | | the door of the palace | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out door=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **stop** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V» | | 3 | **hinder** | participle | | | | | | | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 4 | **see** | past | nobody | words *= word* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | saddle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/9/) - ↑ back to [Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/)