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title: Well, they all stopped when they seen the young giant, with his boy'… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, they all stopped when they seen the young giant, with his boy's face, and long black hair, and his short curly beard--for his poor mother couldn't afford to buy razors--and his great strong arms, and bare legs, and no covering but the goat-skin that reached from his waist to his knees. Who act
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 29

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Well, they all stopped when they seen the young giant, with his boy's face, and long black hair, and his short curly beard--for his poor mother couldn't afford to buy razors--and his great strong arms, and bare legs, and no covering but the goat-skin that reached from his waist to his knees.

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**Who acts:** others, short curly beard, goat skin · **What happens:** stop, see, not afford, buy, reach · **To what, where:** great strong arms, young giant, razors, waist

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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 (others, short curly beard, goat skin), 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:pg7885:33:29
# text = Well, they all stopped when they seen the young giant, with his boy's face, and long black hair, and his short curly beard--for his poor mother couldn't afford to buy razors--and his great strong arms, and bare legs, and no covering but the goat-skin that reached from his waist to his knees.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
5	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	razors	razor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
43	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	53	det	_	_
53	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
60	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	acl:relcl	_	_
61	from	from	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
64	to	to	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | others *= other* | beard's great strong arms and bare legs |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** | participle | others *= other* | the young giant |  |  |  | with giant's boy's face and long black hair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **afford** | could | giant's short curly beard |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | giant's short curly beard *not said here* | razors |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent razor=Theme |
| 5 | **reach** | past | the goat skin |  |  | beard's waist |  | to beard's knees | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «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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