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title: And the druid froze the grey ridged sea into hard rocky knobs, the s… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the druid froze the grey ridged sea into hard rocky knobs, the sharpness of sword being on the one edge and the poison power of adders on the other. Who acts: druid, grey, sharpness. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 178

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And the druid froze the grey ridged sea into hard rocky knobs, the sharpness of sword being on the one edge and the poison power of adders on the other.

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**Who acts:** druid, grey, sharpness · **What happens:** freeze, ridge, be · **To what, where:** sea, one edge

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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 (druid, grey, sharpness), 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:pg7885:13:178
# text = And the druid froze the grey ridged sea into hard rocky knobs, the sharpness of sword being on the one edge and the poison power of adders on the other.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	druid	druid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ridged	ridge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	knobs	knob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sharpness	sharpness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	adders	adder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | past | the druid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ridge** | past | the grey | sea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | the sharpness of sword |  |  | the one edge and the poison power of adders on the other |  | into hard rocky knobs | 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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