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title: What happened but that love for Naois struck the heart of Deirdre, s… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What happened but that love for Naois struck the heart of Deirdre, so that she could not but follow after him. Who acts: love. 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 85

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What happened but that love for Naois struck the heart of Deirdre, so that she could not but follow after him.

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**Who acts:** love · **What happens:** happen, strike, follow · **To what, where:** heart

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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 (love), 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:pg7885:13:85
# text = What happened but that love for Naois struck the heart of Deirdre, so that she could not but follow after him.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | past | that love for Naois | the heart of Deirdre |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 3 | **follow** | could |  |  |  |  | after Uisnech |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=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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