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title: Would that the falcon grey, of sharpest eye and swiftest wing, were… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Would that the falcon grey, of sharpest eye and swiftest wing, were here!" 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 165

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Would that the falcon grey, of sharpest eye and swiftest wing, were here!"

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**What happens:** be

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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: 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:pg7885:21:165
# text = Would that the falcon grey, of sharpest eye and swiftest wing, were here!"
1	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sharpest	sharp	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | here *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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