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title: "Because they are entering into trouble; and trouble is upon you; fo… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Because they are entering into trouble; and trouble is upon you; for that is the second causeless blow you have given me. Who acts: gloves, trouble, that. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 25

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"Because they are entering into trouble; and trouble is upon you; for that is the second causeless blow you have given me.

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**Who acts:** gloves, trouble, that · **What happens:** enter, be, give · **To what, where:** trouble, second causeless blow, shepherd

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gloves, trouble, 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:pg7885:11:25
# text = "Because they are entering into trouble; and trouble is upon you; for that is the second causeless blow you have given me.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
20	causeless	causeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** *in a quote* | present · progressive | gloves *= glove* |  |  | trouble |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into trouble=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | trouble |  |  |  |  | upon you | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the second causeless blow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the second causeless blow | shepherd |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme |

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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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