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title: He asked this woman, "Will you yourself bring up the child to keep h… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He asked this woman, "Will you yourself bring up the child to keep her in hiding far away where eye will not see a sight of her nor ear hear a word about her?" Who acts: Malcolm, woman, eye. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 18

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He asked this woman, "Will you yourself bring up the child to keep her in hiding far away where eye will not see a sight of her nor ear hear a word about her?"

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**Who acts:** Malcolm, woman, eye · **What happens:** ask, bring up, keep, hide, not see, hear · **To what, where:** woman, child, sight, word, ear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Malcolm, woman, eye), 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:pg7885:13:18
# text = He asked this woman, "Will you yourself bring up the child to keep her in hiding far away where eye will not see a sight of her nor ear hear a word about her?"
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	nmod	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	31	cc	_	_
31	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	about	about	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Malcolm |  | this woman |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring up** *in a quote* | future | this woman *= woman* | the child |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this woman *= woman* *not said here* | child |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** *in a quote* | gerund | eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | future | eye | a sight of eye's ear |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
| 6 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | eye *not said here* | a word |  |  |  | about eye | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 7 | **sight** *in a quote* |  |  | eye's ear |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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