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title: And though the thing roared to him to stop, yet the sprightly tailor… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And though the thing roared to him to stop, yet the sprightly tailor was not the man to be beholden to a monster. Who acts: thing, sprightly tailor. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 25

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And though the thing roared to him to stop, yet the sprightly tailor was not the man to be beholden to a monster.

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**Who acts:** thing, sprightly tailor · **What happens:** roar, stop, not be, beholden · **To what, where:** tailor, man

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, sprightly tailor), 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:pg7885:12:25
# text = And though the thing roared to him to stop, yet the sprightly tailor was not the man to be beholden to a monster.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sprightly	sprightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	beholden	beholden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar** | past | the thing |  | tailor |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | the sprightly tailor | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **beholden** | to-infinitive · passive | the thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a monster | 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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