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title: "Return, and when thou comest to the north angle of the house, cry a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Return, and when thou comest to the north angle of the house, cry aloud three times and say, 'The mountain of the Fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire.'" Who acts: thou, Return. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 20

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"Return, and when thou comest to the north angle of the house, cry aloud three times and say, 'The mountain of the Fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire.'"

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**Who acts:** thou, Return · **What happens:** come, cry, say, be · **To what, where:** north angle, mountain, fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Return), 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:pg7885:8:20
# text = "Return, and when thou comest to the north angle of the house, cry aloud three times and say, 'The mountain of the Fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire.'"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	comest	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	angle	angle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Fenian	Fenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	all	all	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | thou |  |  | the north angle of the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to angle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive | Return |  |  |  | time | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Return *not said here* | the mountain of the Fenian women and the sky |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mountain=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Return |  |  | fire |  | all *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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