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title: And the noble, manly, handsome youths with beauteous, brown locks re… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the noble, manly, handsome youths with beauteous, brown locks returned inside. " 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 162

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And the noble, manly, handsome youths with beauteous, brown locks returned inside. "

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**What happens:** return · **To what, where:** beauteous brown locks

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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: 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:pg7885:13:162
# text = And the noble, manly, handsome youths with beauteous, brown locks returned inside. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | participle |  | beauteous brown locks *not said here* |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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