--- title: When Conall and his sons perceived that the gillies were gone, they… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When Conall and his sons perceived that the gillies were gone, they laid hands again on the horse, and one of them caught him, and if the noise that the horse made on the two former times was great, he made more this time. Who acts: Conall, gillies, one, noise. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conall, gillies, one, noise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:9:41 # text = When Conall and his sons perceived that the gillies were gone, they laid hands again on the horse, and one of them caught him, and if the noise that the horse made on the two former times was great, he made more this time. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 Conall Conall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 perceived perceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 gillies gillie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 39 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 46 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 48 advmod _ _ 47 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 48 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **perceive** | past | Conall and Conall's sons | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | the gillies | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lay** | past | gillies *= gillie* | hands | | | again | on the horse | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on horse=Destination | | 4 | **catch** | past | one of gillies | Conall | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **make** | participle | | the horse *not said here* | | | time | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the noise and the horse | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | past | Conall | | | | time | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/42/) - ↑ back to [Conall Yellowclaw](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/)