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title: "My own daughter's tricks are here as before," said the giant; "but… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "My own daughter's tricks are here as before," said the giant; "but if I had my own big axe and wood knife here, I would not be long making a way through this." Who acts: tricks, I, own daughter. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds, with its dependency tree a
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 206

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"My own daughter's tricks are here as before," said the giant; "but if I had my own big axe and wood knife here, I would not be long making a way through this."

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**Who acts:** tricks, I, own daughter · **What happens:** be, say, have, not be, make, trick · **To what, where:** giant, own big axe, way, this · **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 (tricks, I, own daughter), 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:pg7885:31:206
# text = "My own daughter's tricks are here as before," said the giant; "but if I had my own big axe and wood knife here, I would not be long making a way through this."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	parataxis	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	before	before	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
36	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My own daughter's tricks |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | I | my own big axe and wood knife |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | would | I |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | a way |  | this |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 6 | **trick** *in a quote* |  | My own daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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