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title: Said the falcon, "If hardship comes on thee, where swiftness of wing… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Said the falcon, "If hardship comes on thee, where swiftness of wing or crook of a claw will do good, mind me, and I will be at thy side." Who acts: falcon, hardship, swiftness. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 33

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Said the falcon, "If hardship comes on thee, where swiftness of wing or crook of a claw will do good, mind me, and I will be at thy side."

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**Who acts:** falcon, hardship, swiftness · **What happens:** say, come, do, mind, be · **To what, where:** thee, good, falcon, side · **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 (falcon, hardship, swiftness), 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:pg7885:21:33
# text = Said the falcon, "If hardship comes on thee, where swiftness of wing or crook of a claw will do good, mind me, and I will be at thy side."
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	hardship	hardship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
13	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	crook	crook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	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 | the falcon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | hardship |  |  | thee |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thou=Location |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | swiftness of wing or crook of a claw | good |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 4 | **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive | swiftness of wing or crook of a claw *not said here* | the falcon *= falcon* |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the falcon *= falcon* |  |  | thy side |  |  | 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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