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title: Then Deirdre said this lament: "Fair one, loved one, flower of beaut… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Deirdre said this lament: "Fair one, loved one, flower of beauty; beloved upright and strong; beloved noble and modest warrior. Who acts: Deirdre, Fair one. 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 193

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Then Deirdre said this lament: "Fair one, loved one, flower of beauty; beloved upright and strong; beloved noble and modest warrior.

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**Who acts:** Deirdre, Fair one · **What happens:** say, love, belov · **To what, where:** lament, one · **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 (Deirdre, Fair one), 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:pg7885:13:193
# text = Then Deirdre said this lament: "Fair one, loved one, flower of beauty; beloved upright and strong; beloved noble and modest warrior.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	lament	lament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
19	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Deirdre | this lament |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* | past | Fair one | one |  |  |  | flower of beauty *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 3 | **belov** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upright *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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