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title: Allen and Arden had heard of the woman that Connachar, King of Ulste… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Allen and Arden had heard of the woman that Connachar, King of Ulster, had with him, and they thought that, if Naois, their brother, saw her, he would have her himself, more especially as she was not married to the King. Who acts: Connachar, Allen, Naois. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 87

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Allen and Arden had heard of the woman that Connachar, King of Ulster, had with him, and they thought that, if Naois, their brother, saw her, he would have her himself, more especially as she was not married to the King.

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**Who acts:** Connachar, Allen, Naois · **What happens:** hear, have, think, see, not marry · **To what, where:** Allen, that, love

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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, Allen, Naois), 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:pg7885:13:87
# text = Allen and Arden had heard of the woman that Connachar, King of Ulster, had with him, and they thought that, if Naois, their brother, saw her, he would have her himself, more especially as she was not married to the King.
1	Allen	Allen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Arden	Arden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	Naois	Naois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
31	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	46	advmod	_	_
41	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive |  | Allen and Arden |  |  |  | of the woman | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Connachar |  |  |  |  | with Arden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Allen | that |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Naois | love |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | would | Connachar | love |  |  |  | Connachar *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **marry** | past · passive |  | love |  |  |  | to the King; especially *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to king=Co-Patient |

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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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