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title: "You shambling, contemptible old carle, without grace, I have stayed… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "You shambling, contemptible old carle, without grace, I have stayed too long your water and wood thrall." Who acts: You, shoemaker. 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 236

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"You shambling, contemptible old carle, without grace, I have stayed too long your water and wood thrall."

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**Who acts:** You, shoemaker · **What happens:** shamble, stay · **To what, where:** long water

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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, shoemaker), 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:pg7885:31:236
# text = "You shambling, contemptible old carle, without grace, I have stayed too long your water and wood thrall."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shambling	shamble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	contemptible	contemptible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	carle	carle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	thrall	thrall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shamble** *in a quote* | gerund | You |  |  |  |  | without grace | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the shoemaker *= shoemaker* | your long water and wood thrall |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme water=Location |

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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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