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title: With the confusion that she was in, Deirdre went into a crimson blaz… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With the confusion that she was in, Deirdre went into a crimson blaze of fire, and her colour came and went as rapidly as the movement of the aspen by the stream side. Who acts: sleep, Deirdre, colour, fire. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre, with its dependen
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 95

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With the confusion that she was in, Deirdre went into a crimson blaze of fire, and her colour came and went as rapidly as the movement of the aspen by the stream side.

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**Who acts:** sleep, Deirdre, colour, fire · **What happens:** be, go, come, blaze, move · **To what, where:** confusion, crimson blaze, aspen

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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 (sleep, Deirdre, colour, fire), 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:pg7885:13:95
# text = With the confusion that she was in, Deirdre went into a crimson blaze of fire, and her colour came and went as rapidly as the movement of the aspen by the stream side.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	aspen	aspen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sleep | the confusion *not said here* |  |  |  | in *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Deirdre |  |  | a crimson blaze of fire |  | with the confusion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into blaze=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | sleep's colour |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | sleep's colour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the movement of the aspen; by the stream side; rapidly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by side=Location |
| 5 | **blaze** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **move** |  |  | the aspen |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=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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