--- title: "Well, I have seen Deirdre, and I saw her also truly, and while I wa… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Well, I have seen Deirdre, and I saw her also truly, and while I was looking at her through the bicker-hole on the door, Naois, son of Uisnech, knocked out my eye with one of the dice in his hand. Who acts: Alba, Naois. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alba, Naois), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7885:743`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:13:148 # text = "Well, I have seen Deirdre, and I saw her also truly, and while I was looking at her through the bicker-hole on the door, Naois, son of Uisnech, knocked out my eye with one of the dice in his hand. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 Deirdre Deirdre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 also also ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 truly truly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 bicker bicker NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 32 Naois Naois PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Uisnech Uisnech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 38 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 dice dice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Alba | Deirdre | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deirdre=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Alba | Gelban | | | | truly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Alba | | | the bicker hole on the door | | at Gelban | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 4 | **knock out** *in a quote* | past | Naois | my eye | | | | with one of the dice in Uisnech's hand | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with one=Instrument | 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. **Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/149/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Deirdre](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/)