--- title: He sputtered it out, and cried, "Man o' the house, isn't it a great… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He sputtered it out, and cried, "Man o' the house, isn't it a great shame for you to have any one in the room that would do such a nasty thing?" Who acts: master, you, room. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, you, room), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:24:125 # text = He sputtered it out, and cried, "Man o' the house, isn't it a great shame for you to have any one in the room that would do such a nasty thing?" 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sputtered sputter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 14 case _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 expl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 37 det:predet _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sputter out** | past | master | sup | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | master *not said here* | Man of the house | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | | a great shame | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you | any one | | the room | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | would | the room | such nasty thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/124/) - next →: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/126/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Master](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/24/)