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title: He drew out his knife, cut the plant, and carried it into his own ho… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He drew out his knife, cut the plant, and carried it into his own house; stripped the leaves off it and cut up the stalk; and there came a thick, white juice out of it, as there comes out of the sow-thistle when it is bruised, except that the juice was more like oil. Who acts: herb, thick white juic
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 32

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He drew out his knife, cut the plant, and carried it into his own house; stripped the leaves off it and cut up the stalk; and there came a thick, white juice out of it, as there comes out of the sow-thistle when it is bruised, except that the juice was more like oil.

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**Who acts:** herb, thick white juice · **What happens:** draw out, cut, carry, strip, cut up, come · **To what, where:** knife, plant, own house, leaves, house, stalk

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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 (herb, thick white juice), 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:pg7885:6:32
# text = He drew out his knife, cut the plant, and carried it into his own house; stripped the leaves off it and cut up the stalk; and there came a thick, white juice out of it, as there comes out of the sow-thistle when it is bruised, except that the juice was more like oil.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	stripped	strip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
44	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
45	out	out	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
51	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	54	advmod	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	except	except	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	fixed	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
61	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	59	advmod	_	_
62	like	like	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw out** | past | herb | herb's knife |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | infinitive |  | the plant |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plant=Product |
| 3 | **carry** | past |  | knife |  | herb's own house |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **strip** | participle |  | the leaves |  | house |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme off it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **cut up** | participle |  | the stalk |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stalk=Product |
| 6 | **come** | past | a thick white juice out house |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **come out** | present | a thick white juice out house *not said here* | the sow thistle |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient thistle=Result |
| 8 | **bruise** | present · passive |  | juice |  |  |  | except the juice like oil | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 9 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | more *property* | 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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