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title: I have no clothes good enough to wear at church; and if my sisters w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have no clothes good enough to wear at church; and if my sisters were to see me there, they'd kill me for going out of the house." Who acts: I, sisters, clothes. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 9

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I have no clothes good enough to wear at church; and if my sisters were to see me there, they'd kill me for going out of the house."

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**Who acts:** I, sisters, clothes · **What happens:** have, wear, see, kill, go out · **To what, where:** clothes, church, me, house

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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 (I, sisters, clothes), 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:pg7885:23:9
# text = I have no clothes good enough to wear at church; and if my sisters were to see me there, they'd kill me for going out of the house."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | no clothes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | church |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at church=Source |
| 3 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | my sisters | me |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 4 | **kill** | would | clothes | me |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **go out** | gerund | clothes *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | 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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