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title: But he that was up in the palace felt it long that he was not gettin… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he that was up in the palace felt it long that he was not getting word as to how matters were going on for those down in the house of the strangers. " Who acts: house, matters. 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 136

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But he that was up in the palace felt it long that he was not getting word as to how matters were going on for those down in the house of the strangers. "

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**Who acts:** house, matters · **What happens:** be, not get, go on · **To what, where:** palace, word, house

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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 (house, matters), 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:pg7885:13:136
# text = But he that was up in the palace felt it long that he was not getting word as to how matters were going on for those down in the house of the strangers. "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the palace |  | feel, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **get** | past · progressive | house | word |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go on** | past · progressive | matters |  |  | the house of the strangers |  | for those | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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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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