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title: So Tom ran for dear life, till he came home and got a spade, and the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Tom ran for dear life, till he came home and got a spade, and then away with him, as hard as he could go, back to the field of boliauns; but when he got there, lo and behold! not a boliaun in the field but had a red garter, the very model of his own, tied about it; and as to digging up the whole 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 41

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So Tom ran for dear life, till he came home and got a spade, and then away with him, as hard as he could go, back to the field of boliauns; but when he got there, lo and behold! not a boliaun in the field but had a red garter, the very model of his own, tied about it; and as to digging up the whole field, that was all nonsense, for there were more than forty good Irish acres in it.

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**Who acts:** Tom, that, forty good Irish acres · **What happens:** run, come, get, go, have, tie · **To what, where:** spade, boliaun, red garter, whole field, nonsense

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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 (Tom, that, forty good Irish acres), 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:pg7885:7:41
# text = So Tom ran for dear life, till he came home and got a spade, and then away with him, as hard as he could go, back to the field of boliauns; but when he got there, lo and behold! not a boliaun in the field but had a red garter, the very model of his own, tied about it; and as to digging up the whole field, that was all nonsense, for there were more than forty good Irish acres in it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	boliauns	boliaun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	49	discourse	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	boliaun	boliaun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	garter	garter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	very	very	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
66	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	acl	_	_
67	about	about	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	73	punct	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
71	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	73	mark	_	_
72	to	to	ADP	IN	_	71	fixed	_	_
73	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
74	up	up	ADP	RP	_	73	compound:prt	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
76	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
77	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	_
79	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	82	nsubj	_	_
80	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	82	cop	_	_
81	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	82	det	_	_
82	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	86	punct	_	_
84	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	86	mark	_	_
85	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	86	expl	_	_
86	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	82	parataxis	_	_
87	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	89	advmod	_	_
88	than	than	ADP	IN	_	87	fixed	_	_
89	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	92	nummod	_	_
90	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	92	amod	_	_
91	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	92	amod	_	_
92	acres	acre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	86	nsubj	_	_
93	in	in	ADP	IN	_	94	case	_	_
94	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	92	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
95	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  | for dear life; away, hard *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | Tom *not said here* | a spade |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spade=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | could | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | past | Tom | a boliaun in the field |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **have** | past | Tom *not said here* | a red garter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garter=Patient |
| 7 | **tie** | participle |  | a red garter *not said here* |  |  |  | about model | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **dig up** | gerund | Tom *not said here* | the whole field |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 9 | **is a** | past | that | all nonsense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **be** | past | forty good Irish acres in nonsense |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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