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title: "Well, _I_ never!" that was all _they_ could say. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, _I_ never!" that was all _they_ could say. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 43

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"Well, \_I\_ never!" that was all \_they\_ could say.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** not be

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg7885:10:43
# text = "Well, _I_ never!" that was all _they_ could say.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | could · past | that |  |  |  |  | all, say *property* | tree rules |

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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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