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title: The mistress felt herself obliged to rise and open to the call, and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The mistress felt herself obliged to rise and open to the call, and immediately a second witch entered, having two horns on her forehead, and in her hand a wheel for spinning wool. Who acts: mistress, second witch, hand wheel. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women, wi
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 9

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The mistress felt herself obliged to rise and open to the call, and immediately a second witch entered, having two horns on her forehead, and in her hand a wheel for spinning wool.

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**Who acts:** mistress, second witch, hand wheel · **What happens:** feel, oblige, rise, open, enter, have · **To what, where:** mistress, call, two horns, forehead, wool

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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 (mistress, second witch, hand wheel), 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:pg7885:8:9
# text = The mistress felt herself obliged to rise and open to the call, and immediately a second witch entered, having two horns on her forehead, and in her hand a wheel for spinning wool.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
36	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the mistress | mistress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **oblige** | participle | mistress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 3 | **rise** | to-infinitive | mistress *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **open** | infinitive | mistress *not said here* |  | the call |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to call=Recipient |
| 5 | **enter** | past | a second witch |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | gerund | a second witch *not said here* | two horns |  | mistress's forehead |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 7 | **spin** | gerund | a hand wheel *not said here* | wool |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wool=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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