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title: But Redhead whispered and nudged Tom about how shabby it would look… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Redhead whispered and nudged Tom about how shabby it would look to reneague the adventure. Who acts: Redhead, danger. 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 67

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But Redhead whispered and nudged Tom about how shabby it would look to reneague the adventure.

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**Who acts:** Redhead, danger · **What happens:** whisper, nudge, look, reneague · **To what, where:** Tom, adventure

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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 (Redhead, danger), 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:pg7885:33:67
# text = But Redhead whispered and nudged Tom about how shabby it would look to reneague the adventure.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Redhead	Redhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nudged	nudge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	shabby	shabby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reneague	reneague	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Redhead |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **nudge** | past | Redhead *not said here* | Tom |  |  |  | shabby *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | would | danger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reneague** | to-infinitive | danger *not said here* | the adventure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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