--- title: The king then sent for Duanan Gacha Druid, the best magician he had,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The king then sent for Duanan Gacha Druid, the best magician he had, and he spoke to him as follows:--"Much wealth have I expended on you, Duanan Gacha Druid, to give schooling and learning and magic mystery to you, if these people get away from me today without care, without consideration or regard --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/168/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Story of Deirdre](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/) / 168 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 168 The king then sent for Duanan Gacha Druid, the best magician he had, and he spoke to him as follows:--"Much wealth have I expended on you, Duanan Gacha Druid, to give schooling and learning and magic mystery to you, if these people get away from me today without care, without consideration or regard for me, without chance of overtaking them, and without power to stop them." **Who acts:** king, Duanan, people, chance · **What happens:** send, have, speak, follow, expend, give · **To what, where:** best magician, word, Much wealth, schooling, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (king, Duanan, people, chance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:13:168 # text = The king then sent for Duanan Gacha Druid, the best magician he had, and he spoke to him as follows:--"Much wealth have I expended on you, Duanan Gacha Druid, to give schooling and learning and magic mystery to you, if these people get away from me today without care, without consideration or regard for me, without chance of overtaking them, and without power to stop them." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Duanan Duanan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 Gacha Gacha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 Druid Druid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 expended expend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Duanan Duanan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl:agent _ _ 35 Gacha Gacha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 36 Druid Druid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 40 schooling schooling NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 learning learning NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 if if SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 50 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 51 det _ _ 51 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 parataxis _ _ 53 away away ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 from from ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 obl _ _ 56 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl:unmarked _ _ 57 without without ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 without without ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 consideration consideration NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 62 or or CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 regard regard NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ _ 64 for for ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 61 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 without without ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 68 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 69 of of SCONJ IN _ 70 mark _ _ 70 overtaking overtake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 68 acl _ _ 71 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 70 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 , , PUNCT , _ 75 punct _ _ 73 and and CCONJ CC _ 75 cc _ _ 74 without without ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 75 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 76 to to PART TO _ 77 mark _ _ 77 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 75 acl _ _ 78 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 77 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 80 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | the king | | | | then | for Duanan | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | Duanan | the best magician *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Patient | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Duanan | | word | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **follow** | present | Duanan *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **expend** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | Duanan | Much wealth | | | | on word | tree rules | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Duanan *not said here* | schooling and learning and magic mystery | word | | | without care; without consideration for me or regard; without chance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent schooling=Theme to you=Recipient | | 7 | **get away** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this people | | | | today | from Duanan; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from i=Source | | 8 | **overtake** *in a quote* | gerund | chance *not said here* | King | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **stop** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | King | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/167/) - next →: [sentence 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/169/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Deirdre](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/)