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title: Who should come in but one cat and ten, and one great one-eyed fox-c… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Who should come in but one cat and ten, and one great one-eyed fox-coloured cat as head bard over them. 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 65

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Who should come in but one cat and ten, and one great one-eyed fox-coloured cat as head bard over them.

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**What happens:** come in · **To what, where:** one great one eyed coloured cat

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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: 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:pg7885:9:65
# text = Who should come in but one cat and ten, and one great one-eyed fox-coloured cat as head bard over them.
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | should |  | one great one eyed coloured cat as head bard over cows |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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