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title: Begonies, he made the big faggot dance home, with himself sitting on… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Begonies, he made the big faggot dance home, with himself sitting on it. Who acts: Tom. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 14

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Begonies, he made the big faggot dance home, with himself sitting on it.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** make, sit · **To what, where:** big faggot dance, dance

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom), 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:pg7885:33:14
# text = Begonies, he made the big faggot dance home, with himself sitting on it.
1	Begonies	begony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	faggot	faggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Tom | the big faggot dance |  |  |  | Begonies *vocative*; home *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Product |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Tom |  |  | dance |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=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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