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title: That night he put his sword between them, and said: "If you are my w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That night he put his sword between them, and said: "If you are my wife, this sword will get warm; if not, it will stay cold." Who acts: eldest, you, sword. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 132

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That night he put his sword between them, and said: "If you are my wife, this sword will get warm; if not, it will stay cold."

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**Who acts:** eldest, you, sword · **What happens:** put, say, be, get, stay · **To what, where:** sword, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, you, sword), 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:pg7885:23:132
# text = That night he put his sword between them, and said: "If you are my wife, this sword will get warm; if not, it will stay cold."
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
24	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
32	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | eldest *= eld* | eldest's sword |  |  | night | between princes *= prince* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme between they=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | my wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | future | this sword |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **stay** *in a quote* | future | sword |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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