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title: "Are you strong?" said Fin again; "are you able to squeeze water out… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Are you strong?" said Fin again; "are you able to squeeze water out of that white stone?" he asked, putting one into Cucullin's hand. Who acts: you, Fin, chap. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 111

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"Are you strong?" said Fin again; "are you able to squeeze water out of that white stone?" he asked, putting one into Cucullin's hand.

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**Who acts:** you, Fin, chap · **What happens:** be, say, squeeze, ask, put · **To what, where:** water, white stone, one, hand · **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 (you, Fin, chap), 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:pg7885:22:111
# text = "Are you strong?" said Fin again; "are you able to squeeze water out of that white stone?" he asked, putting one into Cucullin's hand.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	Fin	Fin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fin |  |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **squeeze** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | water |  | that white stone |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out stone=Trajectory |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | chap |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **put** | gerund | chap *not said here* | one |  | Cucullin's hand |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal |

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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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