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title: The Shee an Gannon made no answer, but left the king and pushed away… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Shee an Gannon made no answer, but left the king and pushed away to know could he find why the Gruagach was silent. Who acts: Shee, king, Gruagach. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 7

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The Shee an Gannon made no answer, but left the king and pushed away to know could he find why the Gruagach was silent.

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**Who acts:** Shee, king, Gruagach · **What happens:** make, leave, push away, know, find, be · **To what, where:** answer, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shee, king, Gruagach), 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:pg7885:19:7
# text = The Shee an Gannon made no answer, but left the king and pushed away to know could he find why the Gruagach was silent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shee	Shee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Gannon	Gannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
21	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Shee | no answer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product |
| 2 | **leave** | past |  | the king |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 3 | **push away** | past |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **find** | could | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | the Gruagach |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |

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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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