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title: "Well," says the other, "the Danes is much better customers to me; b… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well," says the other, "the Danes is much better customers to me; but since you walked so far I won't refuse. Who acts: Danes, you, I. 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 75

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"Well," says the other, "the Danes is much better customers to me; but since you walked so far I won't refuse.

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**Who acts:** Danes, you, I · **What happens:** say, be, walk, not refuse · **To what, where:** other, better customers, me · **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 (Danes, you, I), 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:pg7885:33:75
# text = "Well," says the other, "the Danes is much better customers to me; but since you walked so far I won't refuse.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	customers	customer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | the other |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Danes | better customers | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **refuse** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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