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title: Not long were the witches in coming back, and they raged and called… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long were the witches in coming back, and they raged and called for vengeance. Who acts: witches, enchantments. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 25

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Not long were the witches in coming back, and they raged and called for vengeance.

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**Who acts:** witches, enchantments · **What happens:** be, come back, rage, call · **To what, where:** witches · **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 (witches, enchantments), 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:pg7885:8:25
# text = Not long were the witches in coming back, and they raged and called for vengeance.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	raged	rage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the witches |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | gerund | the witches *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rage** | past | enchantments *= enchantment* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle | enchantments *= enchantment* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for vengeance | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for vengeance=Recipient |

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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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