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title: So this--he wasn't a bellman, and I don't know what to call him--bug… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So this--he wasn't a bellman, and I don't know what to call him--bugleman, maybe, proclaimed that the King of Dublin's daughter was so melancholy that she didn't give a laugh for seven years, and that her father would grant her in marriage to whoever could make her laugh three times. Who acts: this,
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 22

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So this--he wasn't a bellman, and I don't know what to call him--bugleman, maybe, proclaimed that the King of Dublin's daughter was so melancholy that she didn't give a laugh for seven years, and that her father would grant her in marriage to whoever could make her laugh three times.

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**Who acts:** this, I, daughter, Dublin, father, whoever · **What happens:** not be, not know, call, proclaim, be, not give · **To what, where:** bellman, o, melancholy, laugh, Dublin, marriage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (this, I, daughter, Dublin), 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:pg7885:33:22
# text = So this--he wasn't a bellman, and I don't know what to call him--bugleman, maybe, proclaimed that the King of Dublin's daughter was so melancholy that she didn't give a laugh for seven years, and that her father would grant her in marriage to whoever could make her laugh three times.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bellman	bellman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bugleman	bugleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
52	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
57	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	advcl	_	_
59	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	62	nummod	_	_
62	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | this | a bellman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** | to-infinitive |  | o |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result |
| 4 | **proclaim** | past |  |  |  |  |  | maybe *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the King of Dublin's daughter | melancholy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **give** | past · do-support | Dublin | a laugh |  |  | year |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme |
| 7 | **grant** | would | Dublin's father | Dublin |  | marriage |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | could | whoever | Dublin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **laugh** | infinitive | Dublin *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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