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title: The nurse replied, "No less than a king's command and a king's army… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The nurse replied, "No less than a king's command and a king's army could put me out of my bothy to-night. Who acts: nurse, king. 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 68

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The nurse replied, "No less than a king's command and a king's army could put me out of my bothy to-night.

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**Who acts:** nurse, king · **What happens:** reply, put, command · **To what, where:** nurse, me, bothy · **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 (nurse, king), 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:pg7885:13:68
# text = The nurse replied, "No less than a king's command and a king's army could put me out of my bothy to-night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	_
7	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	bothy	bothy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | could | the nurse | me |  | my bothy | night |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme out bothy=Destination |
| 3 | **command** *in a quote* |  | a king |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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