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title: Well, now, Tom was prouder nor ten paycocks, and used to take a walk… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, now, Tom was prouder nor ten paycocks, and used to take a walk down street in the heel of the evening; but some o' the little boys had no more manners than if they were Dublin jackeens, and put out their tongues at Tom's club and Tom's goat-skin. Who acts: Tom, o, manners, Dublin jackeens. A s
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 19

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Well, now, Tom was prouder nor ten paycocks, and used to take a walk down street in the heel of the evening; but some o' the little boys had no more manners than if they were Dublin jackeens, and put out their tongues at Tom's club and Tom's goat-skin.

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**Who acts:** Tom, o, manners, Dublin jackeens · **What happens:** be, use, take, have, put out · **To what, where:** walk, heel, more manners, tongues, club

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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, o, manners, Dublin jackeens), 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:pg7885:33:19
# text = Well, now, Tom was prouder nor ten paycocks, and used to take a walk down street in the heel of the evening; but some o' the little boys had no more manners than if they were Dublin jackeens, and put out their tongues at Tom's club and Tom's goat-skin.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	prouder	proud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	paycocks	paycock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	conj	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
36	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	34	obj	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	jackeens	jackeen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	's	's	PART	POS	_	51	case	_	_
53	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
55	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	's	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tom |  |  |  | now | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* | a walk |  | the heel of the evening |  | street *obl* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent walk=Value in heel=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | some o | no more manners |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | manners |  |  |  |  | than Dublin jackeens | tree rules |
| 6 | **put out** | participle | Dublin jackeens *not said here* | manners's tongues |  | Tom's club and Tom's goat skin |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at club=Destination |

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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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