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title: "Well, honest man," replied Oonagh, "if you're not able to eat the b… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, honest man," replied Oonagh, "if you're not able to eat the bread, say so quietly, and don't be wakening the child in the cradle there. Who acts: honest man, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 101

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"Well, honest man," replied Oonagh, "if you're not able to eat the bread, say so quietly, and don't be wakening the child in the cradle there.

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**Who acts:** honest man, you · **What happens:** reply, not be, eat, say, not waken · **To what, where:** Oonagh, bread, child, cradle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honest man, 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:pg7885:22:101
# text = "Well, honest man," replied Oonagh, "if you're not able to eat the bread, say so quietly, and don't be wakening the child in the cradle there.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	wakening	waken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | honest man | Oonagh |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oonagh=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **waken** *in a quote* | infinitive · progressive · do-support |  | the child |  | the cradle |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=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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