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title: "And wouldn't I be proud to go with you!" says the dog, "and get rid… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "And wouldn't I be proud to go with you!" says the dog, "and get rid of them ill conducted boys; purshuin' to 'em." Who acts: dog. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 23

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"And wouldn't I be proud to go with you!" says the dog, "and get rid of them ill conducted boys; purshuin' to 'em."

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** not be, go, say, get, conduct · **To what, where:** 'em, ill conducted boys · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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:pg7885:18:23
# text = "And wouldn't I be proud to go with you!" says the dog, "and get rid of them ill conducted boys; purshuin' to 'em."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	purshuin	purshuin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | would | the dog *= dog* |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the dog *= dog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the dog |  | 'em *= they* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | the dog *not said here* | ill conducted boys |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
| 5 | **conduct** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=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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