--- title: Well become Tom, he jumped a-one side, and picked up a ram-pike; and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Well become Tom, he jumped a-one side, and picked up a ram-pike; and the first crack he gave the big fellow, he made him kiss the clod. Who acts: Tom, first crack, crack. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, first crack, crack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:33:6 # text = Well become Tom, he jumped a-one side, and picked up a ram-pike; and the first crack he gave the big fellow, he made him kiss the clod. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 2 become become VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 3 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 pike pike NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 23 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 kiss kiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 clod clod NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | infinitive | | Tom | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient tom=Result | | 2 | **jump** | past | Tom | a one side | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory | | 3 | **pick up** | participle | Tom *not said here* | a ram pike | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Topic | | 4 | **give** | past | the first crack | the big fellow | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | Tom | crack | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **kiss** | infinitive | crack *not said here* | the clod | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clod=Co-Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/33/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/33/7/) - ↑ back to [The Lad With the Goat-skin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/33/)