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title: One fine day in harvest--it was indeed Lady-day in harvest, that eve… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One fine day in harvest--it was indeed Lady-day in harvest, that everybody knows to be one of the greatest holidays in the year--Tom Fitzpatrick was taking a ramble through the ground, and went along the sunny side of a hedge; when all of a sudden he heard a clacking sort of noise a little before hi
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 1

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One fine day in harvest--it was indeed Lady-day in harvest, that everybody knows to be one of the greatest holidays in the year--Tom Fitzpatrick was taking a ramble through the ground, and went along the sunny side of a hedge; when all of a sudden he heard a clacking sort of noise a little before him in the hedge. "

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**Who acts:** harvest, everybody, Tom, all · **What happens:** be, know, take, go, hear, clack · **To what, where:** Lady day, harvest, one, ramble, ground, sunny side

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harvest, everybody, Tom, all), 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:pg7885:7:1
# text = One fine day in harvest--it was indeed Lady-day in harvest, that everybody knows to be one of the greatest holidays in the year--Tom Fitzpatrick was taking a ramble through the ground, and went along the sunny side of a hedge; when all of a sudden he heard a clacking sort of noise a little before him in the hedge. "
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
18	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	Fitzpatrick	Fitzpatrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ramble	ramble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	along	along	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
50	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	nsubj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	nmod	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	clacking	clack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	59	amod	_	_
59	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	obl:unmarked	_	_
64	before	before	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	_
66	in	in	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
70	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | harvest | Lady day |  | harvest |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | everybody |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  | of the greatest holidays in the year | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past · progressive | Tom | a ramble |  | the ground |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ramble=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | Tom *not said here* |  |  | the sunny side of a hedge |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along side=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **hear** | past | all | a clacking sort of noise |  | the hedge | before Tom | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 7 | **clack** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | noise |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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