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title: They stretched their sides to the stream, And sea and land were to t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They stretched their sides to the stream, And sea and land were to them the same, The rough grey ocean was the same As meadow-land green and plain. Who acts: Deirdre, sea, rough grey ocean. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 175

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They stretched their sides to the stream, And sea and land were to them the same, The rough grey ocean was the same As meadow-land green and plain.

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**Who acts:** Deirdre, sea, rough grey ocean · **What happens:** stretch, be · **To what, where:** sides

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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 (Deirdre, sea, rough grey ocean), 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:pg7885:13:175
# text = They stretched their sides to the stream, And sea and land were to them the same, The rough grey ocean was the same As meadow-land green and plain.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
26	As	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | Deirdre | Deirdre's sides |  |  |  | to the stream *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent side=Patient to stream=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | sea and land |  |  |  |  | to Deirdre | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the rough grey ocean |  |  |  |  | as meadow land; same *property* | tree rules |

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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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