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title: And then they all, king and court, saw it glide away over the bright… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And then they all, king and court, saw it glide away over the bright sea towards the setting sun. Away and away, till eye could see it no longer, and Connla and the Fairy Maiden went their way on the sea, and were no more seen, nor did any know where they came. Who acts: wives, court, eye, Connla. A
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 45

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And then they all, king and court, saw it glide away over the bright sea towards the setting sun. Away and away, till eye could see it no longer, and Connla and the Fairy Maiden went their way on the sea, and were no more seen, nor did any know where they came.

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**Who acts:** wives, court, eye, Connla · **What happens:** see, glide away, go, not see, do, know · **To what, where:** bright sea, court, way, sea, more, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wives, court, eye, Connla), 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:pg7885:4:45
# text = And then they all, king and court, saw it glide away over the bright sea towards the setting sun. Away and away, till eye could see it no longer, and Connla and the Fairy Maiden went their way on the sea, and were no more seen, nor did any know where they came.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	glide	glide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	no	no	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	Connla	Connla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
49	no	no	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	54	cc	_	_
54	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
55	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	obj	_	_
56	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	parataxis	_	_
57	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	59	advmod	_	_
58	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | wives *= wife* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **glide away** | infinitive | court |  |  | the bright sea |  | towards the setting sun.; away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over sea=Source towards sun.=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | could | eye | court |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past | Connla and the Fairy Maiden | wives's way |  | the sea |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **see** | past · passive |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | past | wives *= wife* *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality |
| 7 | **know** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **come** | past | wives *= wife* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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