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title: The sea-maiden said, "Play on!" but the princess said, "No, not till… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea-maiden said, "Play on!" but the princess said, "No, not till I see my man again." Who acts: sea maiden, princess. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 149

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The sea-maiden said, "Play on!" but the princess said, "No, not till I see my man again."

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**Who acts:** sea maiden, princess · **What happens:** say, play on, not see · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea maiden, princess), 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:pg7885:21:149
# text = The sea-maiden said, "Play on!" but the princess said, "No, not till I see my man again."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the sea maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present | the princess *= princess* | my man |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |

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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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