--- title: The dairymaid said "There is a great beast with three heads in the l… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The dairymaid said "There is a great beast with three heads in the loch, and it must get some one every year, and the lot had come this year on the king's daughter, and at midday to-morrow she is to meet the Laidly Beast at the upper end of the loch, but there is a great suitor yonder who is going t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Sea-maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/) / 79 # Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 79 The dairymaid said "There is a great beast with three heads in the loch, and it must get some one every year, and the lot had come this year on the king's daughter, and at midday to-morrow she is to meet the Laidly Beast at the upper end of the loch, but there is a great suitor yonder who is going to rescue her." **Who acts:** dairymaid, great beast, lot, great suitor · **What happens:** say, be, get, come, go, rescue · **To what, where:** one, midday, beast · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dairymaid, great beast, lot, great suitor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:21:79 # text = The dairymaid said "There is a great beast with three heads in the loch, and it must get some one every year, and the lot had come this year on the king's daughter, and at midday to-morrow she is to meet the Laidly Beast at the upper end of the loch, but there is a great suitor yonder who is going to rescue her." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dairymaid dairymaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 loch loch NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obj _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 Laidly Laidly ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 Beast Beast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 52 at at ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 loch loch NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 but but CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 61 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 62 expl _ _ 62 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 69 advcl _ _ 63 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 suitor suitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ _ 66 yonder yonder ADV RB _ 69 advmod _ _ 67 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 69 nsubj _ _ 68 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 69 aux _ _ 69 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 70 to to PART TO _ 71 mark _ _ 71 rescue rescue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 69 xcomp _ _ 72 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 71 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 74 " " PUNCT '' _ 69 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the dairymaid | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a great beast with three heads in the loch | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | must | dairymaid | some one | | | year | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the lot | | | | year | on the king's daughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on daughter=Location | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | lot | | | midday to morrow | at the upper end of the loch | meet *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a great suitor | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | | | | | | yonder *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **rescue** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | beast | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/80/) - ↑ back to [The Sea-maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/21/)