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title: Cucullin, seeing what he had seen, was of the same opinion himself;… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cucullin, seeing what he had seen, was of the same opinion himself; his knees knocked together with the terror of Fin's return, and he accordingly hastened to bid Oonagh farewell, and to assure her, that from that day out, he never wished to hear of, much less to see, her husband. " Who acts: Cucull
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 119

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Cucullin, seeing what he had seen, was of the same opinion himself; his knees knocked together with the terror of Fin's return, and he accordingly hastened to bid Oonagh farewell, and to assure her, that from that day out, he never wished to hear of, much less to see, her husband. "

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**Who acts:** Cucullin, knees, Fin · **What happens:** see, be, knock together, hasten, bid, assure · **To what, where:** Oonagh, that, skirl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cucullin, knees, Fin), 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:pg7885:22:119
# text = Cucullin, seeing what he had seen, was of the same opinion himself; his knees knocked together with the terror of Fin's return, and he accordingly hastened to bid Oonagh farewell, and to assure her, that from that day out, he never wished to hear of, much less to see, her husband. "
1	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Fin	Fin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	assure	assure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	obl	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	det	_	_
45	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	out	out	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	much	much	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	58	advmod	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Cucullin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | Cucullin |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Cucullin |  |  |  |  | of the same opinion and skirl's husband; Cucullin *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 4 | **knock together** | past | Cucullin's knees |  |  |  |  | with the terror of Fin's return; together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with terror=Theme |
| 5 | **hasten** | participle | Cucullin |  |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **bid** | to-infinitive | Cucullin *not said here* | Oonagh |  |  |  | farewell *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **assure** | to-infinitive |  | that | skirl |  | day |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 8 | **not** **wish** | past | Cucullin |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Cucullin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **return** |  | Fin |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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