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title: Now," says he, "she'll be without talk any more; now, Guleesh, what… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now," says he, "she'll be without talk any more; now, Guleesh, what good will she be to you when she'll be dumb? Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 28

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Now," says he, "she'll be without talk any more; now, Guleesh, what good will she be to you when she'll be dumb?

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** good · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg7885:5:28
# text = Now," says he, "she'll be without talk any more; now, Guleesh, what good will she be to you when she'll be dumb?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
13	any	any	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	nsubj	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
27	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	31	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | good |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | future | girl |  |  |  |  | without talk | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | future | girl |  |  |  |  | to you | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | future | girl |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | tree rules |

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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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