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title: Ah! maybe the porter's red face didn't turn the colour of his frill,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! maybe the porter's red face didn't turn the colour of his frill, and the Lord of Dunlavin and his pretty daughter, that were standing at the parlour window unknownst to the porter, put out their heads. Who acts: red face, Lord, pretty daughter. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 99

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Ah! maybe the porter's red face didn't turn the colour of his frill, and the Lord of Dunlavin and his pretty daughter, that were standing at the parlour window unknownst to the porter, put out their heads.

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**Who acts:** red face, Lord, pretty daughter · **What happens:** not turn, daughter, stand, put out · **To what, where:** colour, window unknownst, heads

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red face, Lord, pretty daughter), 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:pg7885:18:99
# text = Ah! maybe the porter's red face didn't turn the colour of his frill, and the Lord of Dunlavin and his pretty daughter, that were standing at the parlour window unknownst to the porter, put out their heads.
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	frill	frill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Dunlavin	Dunlavin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	unknownst	unknownst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **turn** | past · do-support | the porter's red face | the colour of face's frill |  |  |  | maybe *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
| 2 | **daughter** |  | the Lord of Dunlavin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past · progressive | face's pretty daughter |  |  | the window unknownst to the porter |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at unknownst=Location |
| 4 | **put out** | infinitive | the porter's red face *not said here* | robbers's heads |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |

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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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