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title: I was going beside the sea, and I saw an island over in the midst of… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I was going beside the sea, and I saw an island over in the midst of the loch, and I came there where a boat was with a rope before her, and a rope behind her, and many precious things within her. Who acts: I, boat. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dep
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 160

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I was going beside the sea, and I saw an island over in the midst of the loch, and I came there where a boat was with a rope before her, and a rope behind her, and many precious things within her.

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**Who acts:** I, boat · **What happens:** go, see over, come, be · **To what, where:** sea, island, midst, many precious things

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boat), 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:pg7885:9:160
# text = I was going beside the sea, and I saw an island over in the midst of the loch, and I came there where a boat was with a rope before her, and a rope behind her, and many precious things within her.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	loch	loch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
38	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
45	within	within	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | I |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beside sea=Location |
| 2 | **see over** | past | I | a island |  | the midst of the loch |  | over *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | I | many precious things within wife |  | there | before wife |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | a boat |  |  |  |  | with a rope | 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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