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title: Guleesh and the priest sat up the entire night with her, waiting til… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Guleesh and the priest sat up the entire night with her, waiting till she should awake, and they between hope and unhope, between expectation of saving her and fear of hurting her. Who acts: Guleesh, harm, expectation, fear. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy M
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 44

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Guleesh and the priest sat up the entire night with her, waiting till she should awake, and they between hope and unhope, between expectation of saving her and fear of hurting her.

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**Who acts:** Guleesh, harm, expectation, fear · **What happens:** sit up, wait, awake, save, hurt · **To what, where:** harm

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guleesh, harm, expectation, fear), 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:pg7885:6:44
# text = Guleesh and the priest sat up the entire night with her, waiting till she should awake, and they between hope and unhope, between expectation of saving her and fear of hurting her.
1	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	awake	awake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	unhope	unhope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	expectation	expectation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | past | Guleesh and the priest |  |  |  | night | with harm | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | Guleesh and the priest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **awake** | should | harm |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | gerund | expectation and fear *not said here* | harm |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **hurt** | gerund | fear *not said here* | harm |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient |

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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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