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title: Oro! dear Mary! it's there the pity was, and the trouble, and the cr… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Oro! dear Mary! it's there the pity was, and the trouble, and the crying, and the wonder, and the searching, and the _rookawn_, when that lady disappeared from their eyes, and without their seeing what did it. Who acts: Oro dear Mary, pity, lady, words. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph J
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 7

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Oro! dear Mary! it's there the pity was, and the trouble, and the crying, and the wonder, and the searching, and the \_rookawn\_, when that lady disappeared from their eyes, and without their seeing what did it.

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**Who acts:** Oro dear Mary, pity, lady, words · **What happens:** be, disappear, see, do · **To what, where:** trouble, eyes, door · **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 (Oro dear Mary, pity, lady, words), 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:pg7885:5:7
# text = Oro! dear Mary! it's there the pity was, and the trouble, and the crying, and the wonder, and the searching, and the _rookawn_, when that lady disappeared from their eyes, and without their seeing what did it.
1	Oro	Oro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crying	crying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	searching	searching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	rookawn	rookawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
47	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	48	nsubj	_	_
48	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Oro dear Mary |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the pity | the trouble and the crying and the wonder and the searching and the rookawn |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | that lady |  |  | words's eyes |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | past |  | door |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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