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title: There now, while you're idling away your time here, there's the cows… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There now, while you're idling away your time here, there's the cows have broke into the oats, and are knocking the corn all about." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 30

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There now, while you're idling away your time here, there's the cows have broke into the oats, and are knocking the corn all about."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** idle away, break, knock · **To what, where:** cows, oats, corn

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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 (you), 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:pg7885:7:30
# text = There now, while you're idling away your time here, there's the cows have broke into the oats, and are knocking the corn all about."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	idling	idle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	broke	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **idle away** | present · progressive | you |  |  | here | time | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | present · perfect · passive |  | the cows |  |  | now | into the oats *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into oat=Result |
| 3 | **knock** | present · progressive |  | the corn |  |  |  | about *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent corn=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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