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title: They lay down that night, and if it was early that Conall rose, it w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They lay down that night, and if it was early that Conall rose, it was earlier than that that the queen was on foot making ready. Who acts: sacks, horse, Conall, queen. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 206

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They lay down that night, and if it was early that Conall rose, it was earlier than that that the queen was on foot making ready.

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**Who acts:** sacks, horse, Conall, queen, foot · **What happens:** lay down, be, rise, make

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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 (sacks, horse, Conall, queen), 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:pg7885:9:206
# text = They lay down that night, and if it was early that Conall rose, it was earlier than that that the queen was on foot making ready.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Conall	Conall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay down** | present | sacks *= sack* |  |  |  | night |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | horse |  |  |  |  | early *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | past | Conall |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | horse |  |  |  |  | early *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  | than foot | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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