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title: The wooing of hero by heroine is a characteristic Celtic touch. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The wooing of hero by heroine is a characteristic Celtic touch. Who acts: wooing, heroine. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 13

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The wooing of hero by heroine is a characteristic Celtic touch.

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**Who acts:** wooing, heroine · **What happens:** be, woo · **To what, where:** characteristic Celtic touch, hero

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wooing, heroine), 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:pg7885:43:13
# text = The wooing of hero by heroine is a characteristic Celtic touch.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wooing	wooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the wooing of hero by heroine | a characteristic Celtic touch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **woo** |  | heroine | hero |  |  |  |  | nom wooing «communication transitive»: of=patient by=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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