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title: "May your hand turn into a pig's foot with you when you think of tyi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "May your hand turn into a pig's foot with you when you think of tying the rope; why should you speak of hanging me?" Who acts: hand, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 144

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"May your hand turn into a pig's foot with you when you think of tying the rope; why should you speak of hanging me?"

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**Who acts:** hand, you · **What happens:** turn, think, tie, speak, hang · **To what, where:** foot, rope, captain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, you), 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:pg7885:20:144
# text = "May your hand turn into a pig's foot with you when you think of tying the rope; why should you speak of hanging me?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	tying	tie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	advcl	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** *in a quote* | may | your hand |  |  | a pig's foot with you |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into foot=Trajectory |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tie** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hang** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the captain of the guard *= captain* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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