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title: _), the story of the man who rashly slew the dog (ichneumon, weasel,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _), the story of the man who rashly slew the dog (ichneumon, weasel, &c.) that had saved his babe from death, is one of those which have spread from East to West. Who acts: man, that, story. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 17

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\_), the story of the man who rashly slew the dog (ichneumon, weasel, &c.) that had saved his babe from death, is one of those which have spread from East to West.

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**Who acts:** man, that, story · **What happens:** slay, save, be, spread · **To what, where:** dog, babe, death, one, West, East

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that, story), 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:pg7885:55:17
# text = _), the story of the man who rashly slew the dog (ichneumon, weasel, &c.) that had saved his babe from death, is one of those which have spread from East to West.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	rashly	rashly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ichneumon	ichneumon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	nmod	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | past | the man | the dog |  |  |  | rashly *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **save** | past · perfect | that | weasel's babe |  | death |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent babe=Theme from death=Source |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the story of the man | one |  |  |  | of those | tree rules |
| 4 | **spread** | present · perfect · passive |  |  | West | East |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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