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title: "O woman," said Kay, "if thou hadst squeezed me thus, none could eve… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "O woman," said Kay, "if thou hadst squeezed me thus, none could ever again have set their affections on me. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 46

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"O woman," said Kay, "if thou hadst squeezed me thus, none could ever again have set their affections on me.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** say, squeeze, set · **To what, where:** thou, none · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg7885:17:46
# text = "O woman," said Kay, "if thou hadst squeezed me thus, none could ever again have set their affections on me.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	affections	affection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **squeeze** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Theme i=Result |
| 3 | **set** *in a quote* | could · perfect · passive |  | none |  |  | again | on woman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme affection=Destination |

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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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