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title: "You will not get any whisp of straw from us," said the threshers, "… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "You will not get any whisp of straw from us," said the threshers, "until you bring us the makings of a cake from the miller over yonder." Who acts: You, threshers, cake. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Munachar and Manachar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar, sentence 52

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"You will not get any whisp of straw from us," said the threshers, "until you bring us the makings of a cake from the miller over yonder."

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**Who acts:** You, threshers, cake · **What happens:** not get, say, bring, make · **To what, where:** whisp, makings, us, miller · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, threshers, cake), 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:pg7885:14:52
# text = "You will not get any whisp of straw from us," said the threshers, "until you bring us the makings of a cake from the miller over yonder."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	whisp	whisp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	threshers	thresher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	makings	making	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | future | You | any whisp of straw from us |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whisp=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the threshers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | you | the makings of a cake | us | the miller |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination making=Theme |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* |  | a cake |  |  |  |  |  | nom making «act intransitive»: of=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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