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title: Suddenly she paused, and said aloud: "Where are the women? they dela… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly she paused, and said aloud: "Where are the women? they delay too long." Who acts: mistress, family. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 7

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Suddenly she paused, and said aloud: "Where are the women? they delay too long."

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**Who acts:** mistress, family · **What happens:** pause, say, be, delay · **To what, where:** women · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, family), 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:pg7885:8:7
# text = Suddenly she paused, and said aloud: "Where are the women? they delay too long."
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	delay	delay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | mistress |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | mistress *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **delay** *in a quote* | present | family |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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