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title: Not help casting me off for the sake of a beggarly old--" — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Not help casting me off for the sake of a beggarly old--" Who acts: 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 163

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Not help casting me off for the sake of a beggarly old--"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not help, cast off · **To what, where:** me

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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 (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:pg7885:20:163
# text = Not help casting me off for the sake of a beggarly old--"
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	beggarly	beggarly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cast off** *not said to happen* | gerund | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | for the sake of a beggarly old | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Product for sake=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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