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title: "In before me, thou crone; I like not flattery out of doors; go in a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "In before me, thou crone; I like not flattery out of doors; go in and let's hear thy speech." Who acts: thou, herd, 's, thy. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 69

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"In before me, thou crone; I like not flattery out of doors; go in and let's hear thy speech."

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**Who acts:** thou, herd, 's, thy · **What happens:** crone, not like, go in, let, hear, speak · **To what, where:** flattery, doors, 's, speech · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, herd, 's, thy), 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:pg7885:21:69
# text = "In before me, thou crone; I like not flattery out of doors; go in and let's hear thy speech."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	crone	crone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	flattery	flattery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crone** *in a quote* |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present | herd | flattery |  | doors |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flattery=Theme |
| 3 | **go in** *in a quote* | infinitive | herd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | herd *not said here* | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | thy speech |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus |
| 6 | **speak** *in a quote* |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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