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title: Ah, will any of you pull a bed of dry grass for me? — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah, will any of you pull a bed of dry grass for me? Who acts: any. 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 81

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Ah, will any of you pull a bed of dry grass for me?

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**Who acts:** any · **What happens:** pull · **To what, where:** bed

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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 (any), 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:pg7885:18:81
# text = Ah, will any of you pull a bed of dry grass for me?
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | future | any | a bed of dry grass |  |  |  | for me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bed=Theme for i=Beneficiary |

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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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