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title: Now dry up the flood, and let me see if I can behold Deirdre," said… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now dry up the flood, and let me see if I can behold Deirdre," said Connachar. Who acts: you, me, I, Deirdre. 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 191

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Now dry up the flood, and let me see if I can behold Deirdre," said Connachar.

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**Who acts:** you, me, I, Deirdre · **What happens:** dry up, let, see, behold, say · **To what, where:** flood, me · **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 (you, me, I, Deirdre), 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:pg7885:13:191
# text = Now dry up the flood, and let me see if I can behold Deirdre," said Connachar.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	dry	dry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the flood |  |  | now |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient flood=Result |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **behold** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Deirdre |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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