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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 57

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So Tom put his flute in his pocket, and says he to the baste that was sittin' on his currabingo ready to faint, "Walk off to your mountain, my fine fellow, and live like a respectable baste; and if ever I find you come within seven miles of any town, I'll--"

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**Who acts:** Tom, baste, you · **What happens:** put, say, be, faint, walk off, live · **To what, where:** flute, pocket, Tom, currabingo · **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, baste, you), 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:pg7885:33:57
# text = So Tom put his flute in his pocket, and says he to the baste that was sittin' on his currabingo ready to faint, "Walk off to your mountain, my fine fellow, and live like a respectable baste; and if ever I find you come within seven miles of any town, I'll--"
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	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	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	baste	baste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sittin	sittin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	currabingo	currabingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	faint	faint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
29	off	off	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	baste	baste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	49	advmod	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	ccomp	_	_
52	within	within	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	57	det	_	_
57	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Tom | Tom's flute |  | Tom's pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tom *not said here* | Tom |  |  |  | to the baste | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the baste |  |  | Tom's currabingo |  | sittin *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **faint** | to-infinitive | the baste *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **walk off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to your mountain | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like a respectable baste | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **find** *in a quote* | present | Tom |  |  |  | ever |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **come** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | within seven miles of any town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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