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title: "That's the very thing for me to try," says Tom; and so, without bur… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "That's the very thing for me to try," says Tom; and so, without burning any more daylight, he kissed his mother, curled his club at the little boys, and off he set along the yalla highroad to the town of Dublin. Who acts: That, Tom, mother, o. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Th
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 23

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"That's the very thing for me to try," says Tom; and so, without burning any more daylight, he kissed his mother, curled his club at the little boys, and off he set along the yalla highroad to the town of Dublin.

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**Who acts:** That, Tom, mother, o · **What happens:** be, try, say, burn, kiss, curl · **To what, where:** thing, more daylight, mother, club, yalla highroad · **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 (That, Tom, mother, o), 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:pg7885:33:23
# text = "That's the very thing for me to try," says Tom; and so, without burning any more daylight, he kissed his mother, curled his club at the little boys, and off he set along the yalla highroad to the town of Dublin.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	advcl	_	_
21	any	any	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	off	off	ADP	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
42	along	along	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	yalla	yalla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	highroad	highroad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the thing |  |  |  | for Tom | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund | Tom *not said here* | more daylight |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent daylight=Theme |
| 5 | **kiss** | past | Tom | o's mother |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **curl** | participle | o's mother *not said here* | o's club |  |  |  | at the little boys | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Patient |
| 7 | **set** | past | o |  |  | the yalla highroad |  | to the town of Dublin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent along highroad=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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