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title: "One divel and thirteen imps, you tinker! what for?" — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "One divel and thirteen imps, you tinker! what for?" Who acts: you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 47

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"One divel and thirteen imps, you tinker! what for?"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tinker

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7885:24:47
# text = "One divel and thirteen imps, you tinker! what for?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	divel	divel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	imps	imp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tinker	tinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tinker** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  | for One divel and thirteen imps and tinker | 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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