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title: Cucullin was an ugly customer to meet with; and, the idea of the "ca… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cucullin was an ugly customer to meet with; and, the idea of the "cake" aforesaid flattened the very heart within him. Who acts: Cucullin, idea. 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 40

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Cucullin was an ugly customer to meet with; and, the idea of the "cake" aforesaid flattened the very heart within him.

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**Who acts:** Cucullin, idea · **What happens:** be, meet, flatten · **To what, where:** ugly customer, heart

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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, idea), 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:pg7885:22:40
# text = Cucullin was an ugly customer to meet with; and, the idea of the "cake" aforesaid flattened the very heart within him.
1	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	customer	customer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	aforesaid	aforesaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	flattened	flatten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Cucullin | a ugly customer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flatten** | past | the idea of the cake aforesaid | the heart |  |  |  | within Cucullin | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |

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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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