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title: And, King of Light and Sun! in good sooth and certainty, little are… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, King of Light and Sun! in good sooth and certainty, little are my thanks for yourself or for her that let you in!" Who acts: King, that. 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 52

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And, King of Light and Sun! in good sooth and certainty, little are my thanks for yourself or for her that let you in!"

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**Who acts:** King, that · **What happens:** be, let in · **To what, where:** thanks, you

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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 (King, that), 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:pg7885:13:52
# text = And, King of Light and Sun! in good sooth and certainty, little are my thanks for yourself or for her that let you in!"
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sooth	sooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	nmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | King of Light in good sooth and certainty and Sun | my thanks |  |  |  | for yourself | tree rules |
| 2 | **let in** | past | that | you |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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