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title: But my grandfather couldn't get it out of his head; hadn't everybody… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But my grandfather couldn't get it out of his head; hadn't everybody, far and near, said Patrick had fallen overboard. Who acts: grandfather, Patrick. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 65

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But my grandfather couldn't get it out of his head; hadn't everybody, far and near, said Patrick had fallen overboard.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, Patrick · **What happens:** not get, have, say, fall · **To what, where:** answer, head, everybody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, Patrick), 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:pg7885:27:65
# text = But my grandfather couldn't get it out of his head; hadn't everybody, far and near, said Patrick had fallen overboard.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	near	near	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
25	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | could | my grandfather | answer |  | grandfather's head |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | my grandfather *not said here* | everybody |  |  |  | far *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | Patrick |  |  |  |  | overboard *property* | vn occur-48.3 «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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