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title: There came three white doves out of the South Flying over the sea, A… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There came three white doves out of the South Flying over the sea, And drops of honey were in their mouth From the hive of the honey-bee. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 116

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There came three white doves out of the South Flying over the sea, And drops of honey were in their mouth From the hive of the honey-bee.

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**What happens:** come, drop, be · **To what, where:** three white doves, sea, hive, mouth

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. 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:pg7885:13:116
# text = There came three white doves out of the South Flying over the sea, And drops of honey were in their mouth From the hive of the honey-bee.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Flying	Fly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
23	From	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hive	hive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | three white doves |  | the sea; there |  | out the South Flying | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | present |  |  |  | the hive of the honey bee |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from hive=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | doves's mouth |  | of honey | 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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