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title: But Tom shook his head, and never stopped the tune, and Redhead neve… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Tom shook his head, and never stopped the tune, and Redhead never stopped dancing and bawling, and the wolf dancing and roaring, one leg up and the other down, and he ready to drop out of his standing from fair tiresomeness. Who acts: Tom, Redhead. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Ja
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 54

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But Tom shook his head, and never stopped the tune, and Redhead never stopped dancing and bawling, and the wolf dancing and roaring, one leg up and the other down, and he ready to drop out of his standing from fair tiresomeness.

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**Who acts:** Tom, Redhead · **What happens:** shake up, not stop, dance, bawl, roar, drop out · **To what, where:** head, tune, standing, fair tiresomeness

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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, Redhead), 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:pg7885:33:54
# text = But Tom shook his head, and never stopped the tune, and Redhead never stopped dancing and bawling, and the wolf dancing and roaring, one leg up and the other down, and he ready to drop out of his standing from fair tiresomeness.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	Redhead	Redhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bawling	bawl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	tiresomeness	tiresomeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake up** | past | Tom | Tom's head |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | past | Tom *not said here* | the tune |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tune=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | past | Redhead |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **dance** | gerund | Redhead *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bawl** *speech: other* | gerund | Redhead *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **roar** | gerund | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **drop out** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* | Tom's standing |  | fair tiresomeness |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent standing=Theme from tiresomeness=Destination |
| 8 | **stand** |  | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | nom standing «state intransitive»: poss=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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