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title: Cucullin was thunderstruck, and secretly thanked his stars that he h… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cucullin was thunderstruck, and secretly thanked his stars that he had the good fortune to miss meeting Fin, for, as he said to himself, "I'd have no chance with a man who could eat such bread as that, which even his son that's but in his cradle can munch before my eyes." Who acts: Cucullin, chance.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 106

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Cucullin was thunderstruck, and secretly thanked his stars that he had the good fortune to miss meeting Fin, for, as he said to himself, "I'd have no chance with a man who could eat such bread as that, which even his son that's but in his cradle can munch before my eyes."

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**Who acts:** Cucullin, chance · **What happens:** thunderstruck, thank, have, miss, meet, say · **To what, where:** Cucullin, stars, good fortune, Fin, chance, such bread · **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 (Cucullin, chance), 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:pg7885:22:106
# text = Cucullin was thunderstruck, and secretly thanked his stars that he had the good fortune to miss meeting Fin, for, as he said to himself, "I'd have no chance with a man who could eat such bread as that, which even his son that's but in his cradle can munch before my eyes."
1	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	thunderstruck	thunderstruck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	Fin	Fin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
41	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
47	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	parataxis	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
56	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	munch	munch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	acl:relcl	_	_
58	before	before	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thunderstruck** | past · passive |  | Cucullin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past |  | Cucullin's stars |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Cucullin | the good fortune |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient |
| 4 | **miss** | to-infinitive | Cucullin *not said here* | the good fortune *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **meet** | gerund | Cucullin *not said here* | Fin |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cucullin |  | Cucullin |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | would | Cucullin | no chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 8 | **eat** *in a quote* | could | no chance | such bread |  |  |  | with a man; as no chance | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 9 | **son** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **is** *in a quote* | can · present |  |  |  | Cucullin's cradle | before my eyes | munch *property* | tree rules |

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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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