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title: "With all my heart," says Tom; "send a jackeen to show me where he l… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "With all my heart," says Tom; "send a jackeen to show me where he lives, and we'll see how he behaves to a stranger." Who acts: Tom, we. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 45

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"With all my heart," says Tom; "send a jackeen to show me where he lives, and we'll see how he behaves to a stranger."

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**Who acts:** Tom, we · **What happens:** say, send, show, live, see, behave · **To what, where:** jackeen, Tom · **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 (Tom, we), 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:pg7885:33:45
# text = "With all my heart," says Tom; "send a jackeen to show me where he lives, and we'll see how he behaves to a stranger."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	jackeen	jackeen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	behaves	behave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | Tom |  |  |  |  | with my heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **send** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a jackeen |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackeen=Theme |
| 3 | **show** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  | Tom |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | present | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **behave** *in a quote* | present | Tom |  |  |  |  | to a stranger | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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