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title: I said, 'I'll take the iron one;' for I thought in my heart that if… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I said, 'I'll take the iron one;' for I thought in my heart that if an attack should come on me, I could defend myself better with the iron than the wooden pike. Who acts: I, heart. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tr
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 51

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I said, 'I'll take the iron one;' for I thought in my heart that if an attack should come on me, I could defend myself better with the iron than the wooden pike.

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**Who acts:** I, heart · **What happens:** say, take, think, come, defend · **To what, where:** iron, heart, myself · **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 (I, heart), 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:pg7885:19:51
# text = I said, 'I'll take the iron one;' for I thought in my heart that if an attack should come on me, I could defend myself better with the iron than the wooden pike.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
31	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	xcomp	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | future | I | the iron |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument iron=Theme one=Destination |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  | my heart |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | my heart |  |  |  |  | on me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Location |
| 5 | **defend** | could | I | myself |  |  |  | with the iron than the wooden pike; good *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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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