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title: He was thinking, in his own mind, at last, that the sheehogues would… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was thinking, in his own mind, at last, that the sheehogues would not come that night, and that it was as good for him to return back again, when he heard a sound far away from him, coming towards him, and he recognised what it was at the first moment. Who acts: frost, sheehogues, it, mind. A sen
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 2

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He was thinking, in his own mind, at last, that the sheehogues would not come that night, and that it was as good for him to return back again, when he heard a sound far away from him, coming towards him, and he recognised what it was at the first moment.

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**Who acts:** frost, sheehogues, it, mind · **What happens:** think, not come, be, return back, hear, come · **To what, where:** own mind, sound

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frost, sheehogues, it, mind), 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:pg7885:6:2
# text = He was thinking, in his own mind, at last, that the sheehogues would not come that night, and that it was as good for him to return back again, when he heard a sound far away from him, coming towards him, and he recognised what it was at the first moment.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sheehogues	sheehogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	csubj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
46	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
52	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	51	obj	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	58	amod	_	_
58	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | frost |  |  | frost's own mind |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **come** | would | the sheehogues |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **return back** | to-infinitive | frost |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | past | frost | a sound |  |  |  | away *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come** | gerund | frost *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards frost | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **recognise** | past | frost |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is** | past | mind |  |  |  | at the first moment |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **mind** |  | frost |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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