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title: Deirdre and her women companions were one day out on the hillock beh… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Deirdre and her women companions were one day out on the hillock behind the house enjoying the scene, and drinking in the sun's heat. Who acts: Deirdre, hillock, sun. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 80

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Deirdre and her women companions were one day out on the hillock behind the house enjoying the scene, and drinking in the sun's heat.

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**Who acts:** Deirdre, hillock, sun · **What happens:** be, enjoy, heat · **To what, where:** one day, hillock, scene

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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, hillock, sun), 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:pg7885:13:80
# text = Deirdre and her women companions were one day out on the hillock behind the house enjoying the scene, and drinking in the sun's heat.
1	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hillock	hillock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Deirdre and women companions | one day and drinking in the sun's heat |  | the hillock behind the house |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enjoy** | gerund | the hillock behind the house *not said here* | the scene |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scene=Stimulus |
| 3 | **heat** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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