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title: "It is a custom in this country," said the second wife, "that the pe… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "It is a custom in this country," said the second wife, "that the person who offers a drink takes a draught out of it first." Who acts: drink, custom, person. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 67

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"It is a custom in this country," said the second wife, "that the person who offers a drink takes a draught out of it first."

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**Who acts:** drink, custom, person · **What happens:** be, say, offer, take · **To what, where:** custom, country, second wife, drink, draught · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drink, custom, person), 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:pg7885:15:67
# text = "It is a custom in this country," said the second wife, "that the person who offers a drink takes a draught out of it first."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
30	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | drink | a custom |  | this country |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a custom | the second wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **offer** *in a quote* | present | the person | a drink |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent drink=Theme |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | present | the person | a draught |  | drink |  | first *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent draught=Theme out it=Initial\_Location |

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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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