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title: No sooner did Guleesh hear her talking than he put a shout of joy ou… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner did Guleesh hear her talking than he put a shout of joy out of him, and ran over to her and fell on his two knees, and said: "A thousand thanks to God, who has given you back the talk; lady of my heart, speak again to me." Who acts: Guleesh, harm, thousand thanks, you. A sentence of «Celti
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 50

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No sooner did Guleesh hear her talking than he put a shout of joy out of him, and ran over to her and fell on his two knees, and said: "A thousand thanks to God, who has given you back the talk; lady of my heart, speak again to me."

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**Who acts:** Guleesh, harm, thousand thanks, you · **What happens:** hear, talk, put, run over, fall, say · **To what, where:** shout, harm, two knees, talk, me, joy · **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 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, thousand thanks, you), 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:pg7885:6:50
# text = No sooner did Guleesh hear her talking than he put a shout of joy out of him, and ran over to her and fell on his two knees, and said: "A thousand thanks to God, who has given you back the talk; lady of my heart, speak again to me."
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
42	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	parataxis	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	back	back	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	ccomp	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	parataxis	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
55	again	again	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · do-support | Guleesh |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | harm |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | past | Guleesh | a shout of joy |  |  |  | out man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shout=Theme out he=Destination |
| 4 | **run over** | past |  |  | harm |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result |
| 5 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | man's two knees |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **give** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thousand thanks to God |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **back** *in a quote* | present | you | the talk |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Agent |
| 9 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | me |  | again |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent |
| 10 | **shout** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=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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