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title: When you are climbing the tree, they will stick to the glass as if t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When you are climbing the tree, they will stick to the glass as if they had grown out of it; but when you are coming down, and have put your foot on each one, they will drop into your hand when you touch them. Who acts: you, bones. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of t
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 153

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When you are climbing the tree, they will stick to the glass as if they had grown out of it; but when you are coming down, and have put your foot on each one, they will drop into your hand when you touch them.

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**Who acts:** you, bones · **What happens:** climb, stick, grow out, come down, put, drop · **To what, where:** tree, foot, hand, bones

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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 (you, bones), 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:pg7885:31:153
# text = When you are climbing the tree, they will stick to the glass as if they had grown out of it; but when you are coming down, and have put your foot on each one, they will drop into your hand when you touch them.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	47	mark	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | present · progressive | you | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **stick** | future | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  | to the glass | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to glass=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **grow out** | past · perfect | bones *= bone* | tree |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **come down** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | present · perfect |  | your foot |  |  |  | on each one | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on one=Destination |
| 6 | **drop** | future | bones *= bone* |  |  | your hand |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hand=Trajectory |
| 7 | **touch** | present | you | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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