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title: "What can you mane, Mr. M'Coul," said they, "by pitching your tent u… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "What can you mane, Mr. M'Coul," said they, "by pitching your tent upon the top of Knockmany, where you never are without a breeze, day or night, winter or summer, and where you're often forced to take your nightcap without either going to bed or turning up your little finger; ay, an' where, besides
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 15

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"What can you mane, Mr. M'Coul," said they, "by pitching your tent upon the top of Knockmany, where you never are without a breeze, day or night, winter or summer, and where you're often forced to take your nightcap without either going to bed or turning up your little finger; ay, an' where, besides this, there's the sorrow's own want of water?"

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**Who acts:** mane, people, you, either, ay · **What happens:** mane, say, pitch, not be, force, take · **To what, where:** tent, top, you, nightcap, bed, little finger · **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 (mane, people, you, either), 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:pg7885:22:15
# text = "What can you mane, Mr. M'Coul," said they, "by pitching your tent upon the top of Knockmany, where you never are without a breeze, day or night, winter or summer, and where you're often forced to take your nightcap without either going to bed or turning up your little finger; ay, an' where, besides this, there's the sorrow's own want of water?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	M'Coul	M'Coul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pitching	pitch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	ccomp	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Knockmany	Knockmany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	46	advmod	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
45	often	often	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	53	nsubj	_	_
53	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
56	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	conj	_	_
58	up	up	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
59	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
60	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	63	punct	_	_
63	ay	ay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
65	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	67	punct	_	_
67	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
69	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
72	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	73	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	78	cop	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	's	's	PART	POS	_	75	case	_	_
77	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	78	amod	_	_
78	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
79	of	of	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
80	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	78	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	78	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mane** *in a quote* | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | mane |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pitch** *in a quote* | gerund | people | your tent |  | the top of Knockmany |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme upon top=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | without a breeze and day or night and winter or summer | tree rules |
| 5 | **force** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  | often *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your nightcap |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightcap=Theme |
| 7 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | either |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **turn up** *in a quote* | gerund | either *not said here* | your little finger |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme |
| 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ay | the sorrow's own want |  |  |  | of water | 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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