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title: This was the way they were for many months, and Guleesh was falling… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This was the way they were for many months, and Guleesh was falling deeper and deeper in love with her every day, and it was plain to himself and the priest that she liked him. Who acts: This, letters, Guleesh, love. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, p
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 75

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This was the way they were for many months, and Guleesh was falling deeper and deeper in love with her every day, and it was plain to himself and the priest that she liked him.

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**Who acts:** This, letters, Guleesh, love, priest · **What happens:** be, fall, like · **To what, where:** way, love, Guleesh

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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 (This, letters, Guleesh, love), 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:pg7885:5:75
# text = This was the way they were for many months, and Guleesh was falling deeper and deeper in love with her every day, and it was plain to himself and the priest that she liked him.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
15	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | letters *= letter* | the way *not said here* |  |  | for many months |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past · progressive | Guleesh | the way *not said here* |  | love | day | with priest; deep *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient way=Result |
| 4 | **is** | past | love |  | Guleesh |  |  | plain *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **like** | past | priest | Guleesh |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |

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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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