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title: They perceived the woman coming, and called on one another to hasten… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They perceived the woman coming, and called on one another to hasten their step as they had a long distance to travel, and the dusk of night was coming on. Who acts: Naois, woman, dusk. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 88

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They perceived the woman coming, and called on one another to hasten their step as they had a long distance to travel, and the dusk of night was coming on.

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**Who acts:** Naois, woman, dusk · **What happens:** perceive, come, call, hasten, have, travel · **To what, where:** woman, step, long distance · **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 (Naois, woman, dusk), 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:pg7885:13:88
# text = They perceived the woman coming, and called on one another to hasten their step as they had a long distance to travel, and the dusk of night was coming on.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	xcomp	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	fixed	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | Naois | the woman |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hasten** | to-infinitive |  | Naois's step |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent step=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | Naois | a long distance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Patient |
| 6 | **travel** | to-infinitive | Naois *not said here* | a long distance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **come on** | past · progressive | the dusk of night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **step** |  | Naois |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act 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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