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title: "An' what are you doing with that box and dice I see in your hand?" — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "An' what are you doing with that box and dice I see in your hand?" Who acts: An, good man. 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 19

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"An' what are you doing with that box and dice I see in your hand?"

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**Who acts:** An, good man · **What happens:** do, see · **To what, where:** box, hand

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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 (An, good man), 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:pg7885:20:19
# text = "An' what are you doing with that box and dice I see in your hand?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | An |  |  |  |  | with that box and dice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | my good man *= man* | that box and dice *not said here* |  | your hand |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus |

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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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