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title: "Now, Guleesh," said he, "tell me truly who is this young lady, and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now, Guleesh," said he, "tell me truly who is this young lady, and whether you're out of your senses really, or are only making a joke of me." Who acts: Guleesh, you, senses, me. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, with its dependency tree and t
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 60

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"Now, Guleesh," said he, "tell me truly who is this young lady, and whether you're out of your senses really, or are only making a joke of me."

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**Who acts:** Guleesh, you, senses, me · **What happens:** say, tell, be, make, joke · **To what, where:** Guleesh, young lady, senses, joke · **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 (Guleesh, you, senses, me), 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:pg7885:5:60
# text = "Now, Guleesh," said he, "tell me truly who is this young lady, and whether you're out of your senses really, or are only making a joke of me."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
28	really	really	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Guleesh |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Guleesh |  | Guleesh |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this young lady |  |  |  | truly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | your senses |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present · progressive | your senses | a joke of me |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product |
| 6 | **joke** *in a quote* |  | me |  |  |  |  |  | nom joke «communication intransitive»: of=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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