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title: I saw three grey hawks out of the south Come flying over the sea, An… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I saw three grey hawks out of the south Come flying over the sea, And the red red drops they bare in their mouth They were dearer than life to me. Who acts: I, red red drops, drops. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 118

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I saw three grey hawks out of the south Come flying over the sea, And the red red drops they bare in their mouth They were dearer than life to me.

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**Who acts:** I, red red drops, drops · **What happens:** see, come, fly, bare, be · **To what, where:** three grey hawks, sea, mouth, me

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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: who acts (I, red red drops, drops), 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:pg7885:13:118
# text = I saw three grey hawks out of the south Come flying over the sea, And the red red drops they bare in their mouth They were dearer than life to me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bare	bare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	dearer	dear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | three grey hawks |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hawk=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the south | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location |
| 4 | **bare** | present | the red red drops |  |  |  |  | in drops's mouth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mouth=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | past | drops *= drop* | drops's mouth *not said here* | me |  |  | than life; dear *property* | 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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