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title: "Well, well!" says the giant, "since thou wert so active to-day, tho… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, well!" says the giant, "since thou wert so active to-day, thou wilt get to this time to-morrow to thatch this byre with birds' down, from birds with no two feathers of one colour." Who acts: thou. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds, with its dependenc
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 119

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"Well, well!" says the giant, "since thou wert so active to-day, thou wilt get to this time to-morrow to thatch this byre with birds' down, from birds with no two feathers of one colour."

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** say, get, thatch · **To what, where:** giant, byre · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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:pg7885:31:119
# text = "Well, well!" says the giant, "since thou wert so active to-day, thou wilt get to this time to-morrow to thatch this byre with birds' down, from birds with no two feathers of one colour."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wert	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	thatch	thatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
43	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | future | thou |  |  |  | time | to morrow *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to morrow=Result |
| 3 | **thatch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | this byre |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent byre=Destination with down=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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