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title: He had neither prayers nor catechism no more nor the others; and so… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had neither prayers nor catechism no more nor the others; and so he gave Tom a bottle of green ointment, that wouldn't let you be burned, nor scalded, nor wounded. " Who acts: giant, that, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tr
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 16

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He had neither prayers nor catechism no more nor the others; and so he gave Tom a bottle of green ointment, that wouldn't let you be burned, nor scalded, nor wounded. "

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**Who acts:** giant, that, you · **What happens:** have, give, not let, burn, scald · **To what, where:** prayers, bottle, Tom, you

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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 (giant, that, you), 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:pg7885:33:16
# text = He had neither prayers nor catechism no more nor the others; and so he gave Tom a bottle of green ointment, that wouldn't let you be burned, nor scalded, nor wounded. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	catechism	catechism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
33	scalded	scald	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc	_	_
36	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | giant | neither prayers nor catechism nor the others |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | past | giant | a bottle of green ointment | Tom |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient bottle=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **let** | would | that | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burn** | infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **scald** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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