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title: Talking of pancakes, maybe, we'll give him as good as any he brings… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Talking of pancakes, maybe, we'll give him as good as any he brings with him--thunderbolt or otherwise. Who acts: we, any. 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 50

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Talking of pancakes, maybe, we'll give him as good as any he brings with him--thunderbolt or otherwise.

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**Who acts:** we, any · **What happens:** talk, give, bring · **To what, where:** thunderbolt, Oonagh

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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 (we, any), 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:pg7885:22:50
# text = Talking of pancakes, maybe, we'll give him as good as any he brings with him--thunderbolt or otherwise.
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of pancakes; maybe *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | future | we | thunderbolt | Oonagh |  |  | good *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | present | any |  |  |  |  | with Oonagh | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

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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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