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title: And the three most famous heroes that ever were found will lose thei… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the three most famous heroes that ever were found will lose their heads on her account." Who acts: three famous heroes, race. 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 16

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And the three most famous heroes that ever were found will lose their heads on her account."

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**Who acts:** three famous heroes, race · **What happens:** find, lose, account · **To what, where:** three famous heroes, heads, account

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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 (three famous heroes, race), 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:pg7885:13:16
# text = And the three most famous heroes that ever were found will lose their heads on her account."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | the three famous heroes |  |  | ever |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | future | the three famous heroes | heroes's heads |  | race's account |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
| 3 | **account** |  | race |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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