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title: "Thou hast aimed well this time too; but there is no knowing but we… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thou hast aimed well this time too; but there is no knowing but we may meet thee another way," said the giant. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 179

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"Thou hast aimed well this time too; but there is no knowing but we may meet thee another way," said the giant.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** aim, be, know, meet, say · **To what, where:** Thou, thee, giant · **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 (we), 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:pg7885:31:179
# text = "Thou hast aimed well this time too; but there is no knowing but we may meet thee another way," said the giant.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obj	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aim** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Thou |  |  | time | well *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **meet** *in a quote* | may | we | thee |  |  |  | another way *obl:unmarked* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | 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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