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title: Connachar got for her a woman-teacher and merry modest maidens fair… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Connachar got for her a woman-teacher and merry modest maidens fair that would lie down and rise with her, that would play and speak with her. Who acts: Connachar, that. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 78

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Connachar got for her a woman-teacher and merry modest maidens fair that would lie down and rise with her, that would play and speak with her.

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**Who acts:** Connachar, that · **What happens:** get, lie down, rise, play, speak · **To what, where:** woman teacher · **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 (Connachar, 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:pg7885:13:78
# text = Connachar got for her a woman-teacher and merry modest maidens fair that would lie down and rise with her, that would play and speak with her.
1	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Connachar | a woman teacher |  |  |  | for promise | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme for she=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **lie down** | would | that |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rise** | infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with promise | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **play** | would | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with promise | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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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