--- title: The two men were in great anxiety waiting to see would she speak, or… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The two men were in great anxiety waiting to see would she speak, or would she not speak, and when they remained silent for a couple of minutes, the priest said to her: "Did you sleep well, Mary?" Who acts: two men, great anxiety, harm, thoughts. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/6/48/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/6/) / 48 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 48 The two men were in great anxiety waiting to see would she speak, or would she not speak, and when they remained silent for a couple of minutes, the priest said to her: "Did you sleep well, Mary?" **Who acts:** two men, great anxiety, harm, thoughts, priest · **What happens:** be, wait, see, speak, not speak, remain · **To what, where:** great anxiety, harm, Mary · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (two men, great anxiety, harm, thoughts), 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:pg7885:6:48 # text = The two men were in great anxiety waiting to see would she speak, or would she not speak, and when they remained silent for a couple of minutes, the priest said to her: "Did you sleep well, Mary?" 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 anxiety anxiety NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ _ 42 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the two men | | | great anxiety | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | great anxiety *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | great anxiety *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | would | harm | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | would | harm | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **remain** | past | thoughts *= thought* | | | | | for a couple of minutes; silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the priest | | harm | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **sleep** *in a quote* | past · do-support | harm | Mary | | | | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/6/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/6/49/) - ↑ back to [Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/6/)