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title: But have you seen her, and are Deirdre's hue and complexion as befor… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But have you seen her, and are Deirdre's hue and complexion as before?" said Connachar. Who acts: you, Connachar. 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 147

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But have you seen her, and are Deirdre's hue and complexion as before?" said Connachar.

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**Who acts:** you, Connachar · **What happens:** see, be, say · **To what, where:** Gelban, hue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Connachar), 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:pg7885:13:147
# text = But have you seen her, and are Deirdre's hue and complexion as before?" said Connachar.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	complexion	complexion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | you | Gelban |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus as before=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Deirdre's hue and complexion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Connachar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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