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title: But the lank grey beggarman put a finger on either outside straw and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the lank grey beggarman put a finger on either outside straw and, whiff, away he blew the middle one. Who acts: lank grey beggarman, beggarman. 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 89

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But the lank grey beggarman put a finger on either outside straw and, whiff, away he blew the middle one.

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**Who acts:** lank grey beggarman, beggarman · **What happens:** put, blow · **To what, where:** finger, outside straw, middle one

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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 (lank grey beggarman, 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:pg7885:20:89
# text = But the lank grey beggarman put a finger on either outside straw and, whiff, away he blew the middle one.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	lank	lank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	whiff	whiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | infinitive | the lank grey beggarman | a finger |  | either outside straw and whiff |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on straw=Destination |
| 2 | **blow** | past | beggarman | the middle one |  |  |  | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=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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