--- title: The girl raised her white smooth hand, and laid her finger on her to… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The girl raised her white smooth hand, and laid her finger on her tongue, to show him that she had lost her voice and power of speech, and the tears ran out of her two eyes like streams, and Guleesh's own eyes were not dry, for as rough as he was on the outside he had a soft heart, and could not sta --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/) / 44 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 44 The girl raised her white smooth hand, and laid her finger on her tongue, to show him that she had lost her voice and power of speech, and the tears ran out of her two eyes like streams, and Guleesh's own eyes were not dry, for as rough as he was on the outside he had a soft heart, and could not stand the sight of the young girl, and she in that unhappy plight. **Who acts:** girl, tears, own eyes, devil · **What happens:** raise, lay, show, lose, run, not be · **To what, where:** white smooth hand, finger, tongue, devil, voice, two eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, tears, own eyes, devil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:5:44 # text = The girl raised her white smooth hand, and laid her finger on her tongue, to show him that she had lost her voice and power of speech, and the tears ran out of her two eyes like streams, and Guleesh's own eyes were not dry, for as rough as he was on the outside he had a soft heart, and could not stand the sight of the young girl, and she in that unhappy plight. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 show show VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 out out ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 44 Guleesh Guleesh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 's 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 48 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 49 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 50 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 as as ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 conj _ _ 55 as as SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 56 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 57 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 cop _ _ 58 on on ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 outside outside NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 advcl _ _ 61 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 62 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 acl:relcl _ _ 63 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 70 cc _ _ 68 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 70 aux _ _ 69 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 70 advmod _ _ 70 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 obj _ _ 73 of of ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 74 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 75 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 76 amod _ _ 76 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 77 , , PUNCT , _ 83 punct _ _ 78 and and CCONJ CC _ 83 cc _ _ 79 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 83 nsubj _ _ 80 in in ADP IN _ 83 case _ _ 81 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 83 det _ _ 82 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 83 amod _ _ 83 plight plight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 84 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raise** | past | the girl | girl's white smooth hand | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | past | the girl *not said here* | girl's finger | | girl's tongue | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on tongue=Destination | | 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | | | devil | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **lose** | past · perfect | girl | girl's voice and power of speech | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality | | 5 | **run** | past | the tears | | | girl's two eyes like streams | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Trajectory | | 6 | **not** **is** | past | Guleesh's own eyes | | | | | dry *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | Guleesh's own eyes *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | past | devil | | | the outside | | | tree rules | | 9 | **have** | past | devil | a soft heart | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 10 | **not** **stand** | could | the girl *not said here* | the sight of the young girl | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | | 11 | **sight** | | | the young girl | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/45/) - ↑ back to [Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/)