--- title: Some of the people said that everything was not as it ought to be, a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Some of the people said that everything was not as it ought to be, and others, that Guleesh was not like the same man that was in it before, and that it was a great story, how he was drawing every day to the priest's house, and that the priest had a wish and a respect for him, a thing they could not --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/70/) [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/) / 70 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 70 Some of the people said that everything was not as it ought to be, and others, that Guleesh was not like the same man that was in it before, and that it was a great story, how he was drawing every day to the priest's house, and that the priest had a wish and a respect for him, a thing they could not clear up at all. **Who acts:** Some, Guleesh, that, business, priest, house · **What happens:** say, be, not be, draw, have, not clear up · **To what, where:** others, business, great story, house, wish, thing · **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 (Some, Guleesh, that, business), 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:pg7885:5:70 # text = Some of the people said that everything was not as it ought to be, and others, that Guleesh was not like the same man that was in it before, and that it was a great story, how he was drawing every day to the priest's house, and that the priest had a wish and a respect for him, a thing they could not clear up at all. 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 7 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 Guleesh Guleesh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ _ 31 before before ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ _ 45 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 46 det _ _ 46 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:unmarked _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 54 that that SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 57 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 61 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 conj _ _ 63 for for ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 66 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 conj _ _ 68 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 71 nsubj _ _ 69 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 71 aux _ _ 70 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 71 advmod _ _ 71 clear clear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 67 acl:relcl _ _ 72 up up ADP RP _ 71 compound:prt _ _ 73 at at ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 74 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 71 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Some *not said here* | others | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | Guleesh | | | | | before, like *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | that | | | business | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | business | a great story | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **draw** | past · progressive | Guleesh | | | the priest's house | day | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination | | 7 | **have** | past | the priest | a wish and a respect for Guleesh and a thing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | | 8 | **not** **clear up** | could | house | a thing *not said here* | | all | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Source | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/71/) - ↑ back to [Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/)