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title: Deirdre and her foster-mother dwelt in the bothy mid the hills witho… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Deirdre and her foster-mother dwelt in the bothy mid the hills without the knowledge or the suspicion of any living person about them and without anything occurring, until Deirdre was sixteen years of age. Who acts: Deirdre. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 22

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Deirdre and her foster-mother dwelt in the bothy mid the hills without the knowledge or the suspicion of any living person about them and without anything occurring, until Deirdre was sixteen years of age.

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**Who acts:** Deirdre · **What happens:** dwell, mi, occur, be, suspect · **To what, where:** hills, bothy, living person

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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), 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:pg7885:13:22
# text = Deirdre and her foster-mother dwelt in the bothy mid the hills without the knowledge or the suspicion of any living person about them and without anything occurring, until Deirdre was sixteen years of age.
1	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bothy	bothy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	mid	mi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	conj	_	_
29	occurring	occur	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	until	until	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **dwell** | past | Deirdre and company's foster mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mi** | past | Deirdre and company's foster mother *not said here* | the hills |  | the bothy |  | without the knowledge or the suspicion of any living person about Deirdre | tree rules |
| 3 | **occur** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Deirdre |  |  |  | until sixteen years; of age |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **suspect** |  |  | any living person about Deirdre |  |  |  |  | nom suspicion «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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