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title: "Yellow Face gave me the iron pike, and the first chance of taking w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yellow Face gave me the iron pike, and the first chance of taking what I could out of the pot on the point of the pike. Who acts: Yellow Face, first chance. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 52

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"Yellow Face gave me the iron pike, and the first chance of taking what I could out of the pot on the point of the pike.

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**Who acts:** Yellow Face, first chance · **What happens:** give, take, point · **To what, where:** iron pike, man, pot, pike

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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 (Yellow Face, first chance), 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:pg7885:19:52
# text = "Yellow Face gave me the iron pike, and the first chance of taking what I could out of the pot on the point of the pike.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Face	Face	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | past | Yellow Face | the iron pike | the man of the house *= man* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pike=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | the first chance |  |  | the pot |  | on the point of the pike | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme on point=Destination |
| 3 | **point** *in a quote* |  |  | the pike |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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