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title: When he got to the street door, the cock dropped down upon him with… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he got to the street door, the cock dropped down upon him with his claws and bill, and what the cat and dog done to him was only a flay-bite to what he got from the cock. Who acts: boy, cock, cat. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades, with its dependency tr
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 76

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When he got to the street door, the cock dropped down upon him with his claws and bill, and what the cat and dog done to him was only a flay-bite to what he got from the cock.

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**Who acts:** boy, cock, cat · **What happens:** get, drop down, do, be · **To what, where:** cat, boy, flay bite

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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 (boy, cock, cat), 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:pg7885:18:76
# text = When he got to the street door, the cock dropped down upon him with his claws and bill, and what the cat and dog done to him was only a flay-bite to what he got from the cock.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	flay	flay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | to the street door *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to door=Result |
| 2 | **drop down** | past | the cock |  |  |  |  | upon boy; with boy's claws and bill; down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  | the cat and dog *not said here* | boy |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the cat and dog | a flay bite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | from the cock | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from cock=Destination |

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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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