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title: The musicians were at the two ends of the hall, and they were playin… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The musicians were at the two ends of the hall, and they were playing the sweetest music that ever a man's ear heard, and there were young women and fine youths in the middle of the hall, dancing and turning, and going round so quickly and so lightly, that it put a _soorawn_ in Guleesh's head to be 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 83

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The musicians were at the two ends of the hall, and they were playing the sweetest music that ever a man's ear heard, and there were young women and fine youths in the middle of the hall, dancing and turning, and going round so quickly and so lightly, that it put a \_soorawn\_ in Guleesh's head to be looking at them.

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**Who acts:** musicians, ear, young women · **What happens:** be, play, hear, dance, turn, go round · **To what, where:** two ends, sweetest music, soorawn, head

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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 (musicians, ear, young women), 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:pg7885:4:83
# text = The musicians were at the two ends of the hall, and they were playing the sweetest music that ever a man's ear heard, and there were young women and fine youths in the middle of the hall, dancing and turning, and going round so quickly and so lightly, that it put a _soorawn_ in Guleesh's head to be looking at them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	_
48	round	round	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	so	so	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	so	so	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	soorawn	soorawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	57	punct	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	's	's	PART	POS	_	63	case	_	_
65	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	68	mark	_	_
67	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	68	aux	_	_
68	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	57	advcl	_	_
69	at	at	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the musicians |  |  |  | at the two ends | of the hall | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | past · progressive | musicians *= musician* | the sweetest music |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | a man's ear | the sweetest music |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | past | young women and fine youths in the middle of the hall |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go round** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | quickly, round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **put** | past | ear | a soorawn |  | Guleesh's head |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soorawn=Theme in head=Destination |
| 9 | **look** | to-infinitive · progressive | ear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at musicians *= musician* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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