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title: He gave a cross look to the visitors, and says he to Jack, "What do… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave a cross look to the visitors, and says he to Jack, "What do you want here, my fine fellow? there isn't room for you all." Who acts: Dunlavin, Jack, room. 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 95

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He gave a cross look to the visitors, and says he to Jack, "What do you want here, my fine fellow? there isn't room for you all."

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**Who acts:** Dunlavin, Jack, room · **What happens:** give, look, say, want, not be · **To what, where:** cross, Dunlavin, Jack · **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 (Dunlavin, Jack, room), 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:pg7885:18:95
# text = He gave a cross look to the visitors, and says he to Jack, "What do you want here, my fine fellow? there isn't room for you all."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
30	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Dunlavin | a cross |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | Dunlavin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the visitors | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to visitor=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | present |  | Dunlavin | Jack |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Jack |  |  | here |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **be** *in a quote* | present | room for you |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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