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title: The moon rose slowly; and it was like a knob of fire behind him; and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon rose slowly; and it was like a knob of fire behind him; and there was a white fog which was raised up over the fields of grass and all damp places, through the coolness of the night after a great heat in the day. Who acts: moon. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla an
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 82

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The moon rose slowly; and it was like a knob of fire behind him; and there was a white fog which was raised up over the fields of grass and all damp places, through the coolness of the night after a great heat in the day.

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**Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** rise, be, raise up · **To what, where:** white fog, fields

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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 (moon), 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:pg7885:5:82
# text = The moon rose slowly; and it was like a knob of fire behind him; and there was a white fog which was raised up over the fields of grass and all damp places, through the coolness of the night after a great heat in the day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knob	knob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
34	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	coolness	coolness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	after	after	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | moon |  |  |  |  | like a knob; of fire behind Guleesh | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a white fog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **raise up** | past · passive |  | a white fog |  | the fields of grass and all damp places | after a great heat; day |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over field=Destination |

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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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