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title: All the sticking-plaster in Enniscorthy will be too little for the c… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All the sticking-plaster in Enniscorthy will be too little for the cuts and bruises I have on me. Who acts: sticking plaster, I. 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 82

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All the sticking-plaster in Enniscorthy will be too little for the cuts and bruises I have on me.

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**Who acts:** sticking plaster, I · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** cuts

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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 (sticking plaster, I), 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:pg7885:18:82
# text = All the sticking-plaster in Enniscorthy will be too little for the cuts and bruises I have on me.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	sticking	sticking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Enniscorthy	Enniscorthy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bruises	bruise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | all sticking plaster in Enniscorthy |  |  |  |  | for the cuts and bruises; little *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | the cuts and bruises *not said here* |  |  |  | on me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Patient |

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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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