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title: He got up then, and it was the first thing he did to go out and sear… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He got up then, and it was the first thing he did to go out and search well through the grass round about the house, trying could he get any herb that he did not recognise. Who acts: sun, wink. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, with its depende
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 27

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He got up then, and it was the first thing he did to go out and search well through the grass round about the house, trying could he get any herb that he did not recognise.

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**Who acts:** sun, wink · **What happens:** get up, be, go out, search, try, get · **To what, where:** first thing, grass, herb

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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 (sun, wink), 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:pg7885:6:27
# text = He got up then, and it was the first thing he did to go out and search well through the grass round about the house, trying could he get any herb that he did not recognise.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	csubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | sun |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | wink | the first thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | past · do-support | sun |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **search** | infinitive | sun *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  | about the house; round, well *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through grass=Location |
| 5 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **get** | could | sun | any herb |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **recognise** | past · do-support | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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