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title: I thought, however, that, as you were reported to be rather a stout… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I thought, however, that, as you were reported to be rather a stout little fellow of your size, you might be able to manage it, and I did not wish to affront a man that thinks himself able to fight Fin. Who acts: I, you, man. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 97

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I thought, however, that, as you were reported to be rather a stout little fellow of your size, you might be able to manage it, and I did not wish to affront a man that thinks himself able to fight Fin.

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**Who acts:** I, you, man · **What happens:** think, report, be, manage, not wish, affront · **To what, where:** that, you, stout little fellow, size, man, fellow · **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 (I, you, man), 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:pg7885:22:97
# text = I thought, however, that, as you were reported to be rather a stout little fellow of your size, you might be able to manage it, and I did not wish to affront a man that thinks himself able to fight Fin.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
14	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	affront	affront	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	_
43	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	Fin	Fin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I | that |  |  |  | however *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a stout little fellow |  |  |  | of your size | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | might | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **manage** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | size |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **affront** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | present | a man | fellow |  |  |  | able *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |
| 9 | **fight** | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* | Fin |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Co-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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