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title: Going looking for a flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Going looking for a flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one." Who acts: Manachar. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 16

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Going looking for a flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one."

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**Who acts:** Manachar · **What happens:** go, look, cut, make, hang, eat · **To what, where:** rod, gad, raspberries

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manachar), 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:pg7885:14:16
# text = Going looking for a flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one."
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gad	gad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gad	gad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	Manachar	Manachar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a flag and flag and edge axe and axe and a rod | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for flag=Theme |
| 3 | **cut** | to-infinitive |  | a rod |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rod=Product |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a gad |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gad=Product |
| 5 | **hang** | to-infinitive |  | a gad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | past | Manachar | my raspberries |  |  |  |  | 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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