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title: Guleesh had double pity for her then, when he saw the lad taking her… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Guleesh had double pity for her then, when he saw the lad taking her by the soft white hand, and drawing her out to dance. Who acts: Guleesh, lad, drawing. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 104

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Guleesh had double pity for her then, when he saw the lad taking her by the soft white hand, and drawing her out to dance.

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**Who acts:** Guleesh, lad, drawing · **What happens:** have, see, take, draw out, dance · **To what, where:** double pity, lad, Musha

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guleesh, lad, drawing), 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:pg7885:4:104
# text = Guleesh had double pity for her then, when he saw the lad taking her by the soft white hand, and drawing her out to dance.
1	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Guleesh | double pity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | GULEESH | the lad |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lad=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the lad *not said here* |  | Musha |  |  | by the soft white hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 4 | **draw out** | gerund |  | Musha |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **dance** | to-infinitive | drawing |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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