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title: And, indeed, he was not long searching till he observed a large stra… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, indeed, he was not long searching till he observed a large strange herb that was growing up just by the gable of the house. Who acts: sun, large strange herb. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 28

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And, indeed, he was not long searching till he observed a large strange herb that was growing up just by the gable of the house.

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**Who acts:** sun, large strange herb · **What happens:** be, observe, grow up · **To what, where:** long searching, large strange 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, large strange herb), 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:pg7885:6:28
# text = And, indeed, he was not long searching till he observed a large strange herb that was growing up just by the gable of the house.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	searching	searching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gable	gable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | sun | long searching |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **observe** | past | sun | a large strange herb |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent herb=Topic |
| 3 | **grow up** | past · progressive | a large strange herb |  |  |  |  | by the gable of the house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by gable=Location |

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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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