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title: "With all pleasure in life," said she; "only, as they're far back in… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "With all pleasure in life," said she; "only, as they're far back in his head, you must put your finger a good way in." Who acts: kind, Fin, you. 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 124

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"With all pleasure in life," said she; "only, as they're far back in his head, you must put your finger a good way in."

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**Who acts:** kind, Fin, you · **What happens:** say, be, put · **To what, where:** finger, head · **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 (kind, Fin, 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:pg7885:22:124
# text = "With all pleasure in life," said she; "only, as they're far back in his head, you must put your finger a good way in."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	in	in	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | kind |  |  |  |  | with all pleasure in life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Fin |  |  |  |  | back, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | must | you | your finger |  | Cucullin's head |  | a good way *obl:unmarked* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in head=Destination |

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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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