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title: He went over to it, and observed it closely, and saw that there were… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went over to it, and observed it closely, and saw that there were seven little branches coming out of the stalk, and seven leaves growing on every branch_een_ of them; and that there was a white sap in the leaves. " Who acts: sun, seven little branches, seven leaves. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy T
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 29

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He went over to it, and observed it closely, and saw that there were seven little branches coming out of the stalk, and seven leaves growing on every branch\_een\_ of them; and that there was a white sap in the leaves. "

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**Who acts:** sun, seven little branches, seven leaves · **What happens:** go over, observe, see, be, come out, grow · **To what, where:** house, stalk, een \_, branch, white sap, leaves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, seven little branches, seven leaves), 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:pg7885:6:29
# text = He went over to it, and observed it closely, and saw that there were seven little branches coming out of the stalk, and seven leaves growing on every branch_een_ of them; and that there was a white sap in the leaves. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
20	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
29	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	42	expl	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	sap	SAP	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go over** | past | sun |  | house |  |  | over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **observe** | past | sun *not said here* | house |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | past | seven little branches |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come out** | gerund | seven little branches *not said here* | the stalk |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stalk=Result |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund | seven leaves *not said here* | een \_ of branches |  | every branch |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Location |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | a white sap |  | the leaves |  |  | tree rules |

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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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