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title: "If you don't tell me of your own will, I'll make you tell me," said… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "If you don't tell me of your own will, I'll make you tell me," said the cowboy; and he put a face on himself that was terrible to look at, and running through the house like a madman, could find nothing that would give pain enough to the Gruagach but some ropes made of untanned sheepskin hanging on
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 38

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"If you don't tell me of your own will, I'll make you tell me," said the cowboy; and he put a face on himself that was terrible to look at, and running through the house like a madman, could find nothing that would give pain enough to the Gruagach but some ropes made of untanned sheepskin hanging on the wall.

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**Who acts:** you, cowboy, that, untanned sheepskin · **What happens:** not tell, make, tell, say, put, be · **To what, where:** cowboy, you, face, house, nothing, pain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cowboy, that, untanned sheepskin), 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:pg7885:19:38
# text = "If you don't tell me of your own will, I'll make you tell me," said the cowboy; and he put a face on himself that was terrible to look at, and running through the house like a madman, could find nothing that would give pain enough to the Gruagach but some ropes made of untanned sheepskin hanging on the wall.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
40	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
41	through	through	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	madman	madman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
50	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	49	obj	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl:relcl	_	_
54	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
55	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
59	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	det	_	_
61	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
62	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	acl	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	untanned	untanned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	sheepskin	sheepskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
66	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	65	acl	_	_
67	on	on	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  | the cowboy *= cowboy* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | future | the cowboy *= cowboy* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | the cowboy *= cowboy* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the cowboy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **put** | past | cowboy | a face |  |  |  | on cowboy | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme on himself=Destination |
| 6 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | terrible *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **look** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | the house |  | like a madman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through house=Trajectory |
| 9 | **find** | could |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 10 | **give** | would |  | pain | the Gruagach |  |  | enough *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pain=Theme to gruagach=Recipient |
| 11 | **make** | participle |  | some ropes *not said here* |  |  |  | of untanned sheepskin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 12 | **hang** | gerund | untanned sheepskin *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |

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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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