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title: He pulled out his flute and began to play like vengeance; and dicken… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He pulled out his flute and began to play like vengeance; and dickens a man or boy in the yard but began shovelling away heel and toe, and the wolf himself was obliged to get on his hind legs and dance "Tatther Jack Walsh," along with the rest. Who acts: Tom. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Jo
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 51

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He pulled out his flute and began to play like vengeance; and dickens a man or boy in the yard but began shovelling away heel and toe, and the wolf himself was obliged to get on his hind legs and dance "Tatther Jack Walsh," along with the rest.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** pull out, begin, play, dicken, shovell away, oblige · **To what, where:** flute, man, heel, wolf, hind legs

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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), 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:pg7885:33:51
# text = He pulled out his flute and began to play like vengeance; and dickens a man or boy in the yard but began shovelling away heel and toe, and the wolf himself was obliged to get on his hind legs and dance "Tatther Jack Walsh," along with the rest.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dickens	dicken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	shovelling	shovell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Tatther	Tatther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
46	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	flat	_	_
47	Walsh	Walsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	_
50	along	along	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull out** | past | Tom | Tom's flute |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like vengeance | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dicken** | present |  | a man or boy |  |  |  | in the yard | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | past | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **shovell away** | gerund | Tom *not said here* | heel and toe |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | the wolf |  |  |  | Tatther and the rest *obl* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Tom's hind legs and dance |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on leg=Source |

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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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