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title: So says she to him next morning, "Tom, you thief, you never done any… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So says she to him next morning, "Tom, you thief, you never done any good yet, and you six foot high, and past nineteen;--take that rope and bring me a faggot from the wood." Who acts: Enniscorth. 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 3

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So says she to him next morning, "Tom, you thief, you never done any good yet, and you six foot high, and past nineteen;--take that rope and bring me a faggot from the wood."

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**Who acts:** Enniscorth · **What happens:** say, thief, not do, take, bring · **To what, where:** woman, Enniscorth, any, rope, faggot, me · **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 (Enniscorth), 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:pg7885:33:3
# text = So says she to him next morning, "Tom, you thief, you never done any good yet, and you six foot high, and past nineteen;--take that rope and bring me a faggot from the wood."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	past	past	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
34	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	faggot	faggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | woman | Enniscorth |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thief** *in a quote* |  | Enniscorth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past | Enniscorth | any |  |  | yet | nineteen *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that rope |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a faggot | me | the wood |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination faggot=Theme |

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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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