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title: There is a flail hangin' on the collar-beam, in hell, and neither Da… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a flail hangin' on the collar-beam, in hell, and neither Dane nor devil can stand before it." Who acts: flail hangin, Dane. 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 64

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There is a flail hangin' on the collar-beam, in hell, and neither Dane nor devil can stand before it."

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**Who acts:** flail hangin, Dane · **What happens:** be, stand

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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 (flail hangin, Dane), 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:pg7885:33:64
# text = There is a flail hangin' on the collar-beam, in hell, and neither Dane nor devil can stand before it."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	flail	flail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hangin	hangin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc	_	_
20	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | a flail hangin on the collar beam and hell |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | can | neither Dane nor devil |  |  |  | before devil |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location |

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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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