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title: If you hear them speaking of things beyond the understanding of chil… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If you hear them speaking of things beyond the understanding of children, go back and take them up and throw them into the waters of Lake Elvyn. Who acts: you, twins. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 15

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If you hear them speaking of things beyond the understanding of children, go back and take them up and throw them into the waters of Lake Elvyn.

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**Who acts:** you, twins · **What happens:** hear, speak, go back, take up, throw, understand · **To what, where:** twins, waters, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, twins), 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:pg7885:32:15
# text = If you hear them speaking of things beyond the understanding of children, go back and take them up and throw them into the waters of Lake Elvyn.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	Elvyn	Elvyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | twins *= twin* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | twins *= twin* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of things; beyond the understanding of children | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **take up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | twins *= twin* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | twins *= twin* |  |  |  | into the waters of Lake *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into water=Result |
| 6 | **understand** |  |  | children |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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