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title: "You shall have them," said O'Donnell; and the lank grey beggarman t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "You shall have them," said O'Donnell; and the lank grey beggarman took three small straws and placed them in his hand. Who acts: You, O'Donnell, lank grey beggarman. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 86

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"You shall have them," said O'Donnell; and the lank grey beggarman took three small straws and placed them in his hand.

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**Who acts:** You, O'Donnell, lank grey beggarman · **What happens:** have, say, take, place · **To what, where:** pieces, three small straws, hand · **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 (You, O'Donnell, lank grey beggarman), 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:pg7885:20:86
# text = "You shall have them," said O'Donnell; and the lank grey beggarman took three small straws and placed them in his hand.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	O'Donnell	O'Donnell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	lank	lank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	straws	straw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | You | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | O'Donnell |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | past | the lank grey beggarman | three small straws |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Theme |
| 4 | **place** | past | the lank grey beggarman *not said here* | pieces *= piece* |  | beggarman's hand |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in hand=Destination |

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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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