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title: When the fellow gets angry, and begins to stamp, he'll shake you a w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the fellow gets angry, and begins to stamp, he'll shake you a whole townland; and it's well known that he can stop a thunderbolt, for he always carries one about him in the shape of a pancake, to show to any one that might misdoubt it." Who acts: fellow, one. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 28

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When the fellow gets angry, and begins to stamp, he'll shake you a whole townland; and it's well known that he can stop a thunderbolt, for he always carries one about him in the shape of a pancake, to show to any one that might misdoubt it."

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**Who acts:** fellow, one · **What happens:** get, begin, stamp, shake, know, stop · **To what, where:** you, townland, thunderbolt, one, shape · **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 (fellow, one), 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:pg7885:22:28
# text = When the fellow gets angry, and begins to stamp, he'll shake you a whole townland; and it's well known that he can stop a thunderbolt, for he always carries one about him in the shape of a pancake, to show to any one that might misdoubt it."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stamp	stamp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	townland	townland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
35	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obj	_	_
37	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	pancake	pancake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
50	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
52	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	misdoubt	misdoubt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl:relcl	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the fellow |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **begin** | present | the fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stamp** | to-infinitive | the fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shake** | future | fellow | you |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent you=Theme townland=Destination |
| 5 | **know** | present · passive |  | townland |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **stop** | can | fellow | a thunderbolt |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector thunderbolt=Eventuality |
| 7 | **carry** | present | fellow | one |  | the shape of a pancake |  | about Cucullin; always *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Value in shape=Location |
| 8 | **show** | to-infinitive | fellow *not said here* |  | any one |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |
| 9 | **misdoubt** | might | any one | thunderbolt |  |  |  |  | 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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