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title: The little vagabond was grinning to think how it would burn the hand… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The little vagabond was grinning to think how it would burn the hands o' Tom, but the dickens a burn it made on him, no more nor if it was a good oak sapling. Who acts: little vagabond, vagabond. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tre
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 78

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The little vagabond was grinning to think how it would burn the hands o' Tom, but the dickens a burn it made on him, no more nor if it was a good oak sapling.

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**Who acts:** little vagabond, vagabond · **What happens:** grin, think, burn, make, be · **To what, where:** dickens, hands, burn, more good oak sapling · **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 (little vagabond, vagabond), 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:pg7885:33:78
# text = The little vagabond was grinning to think how it would burn the hands o' Tom, but the dickens a burn it made on him, no more nor if it was a good oak sapling.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dickens	dickens	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	37	cc	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	sapling	sapling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grin** | past · progressive | the little vagabond | the dickens nor no more good oak sapling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the little vagabond *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | would | vagabond | the hands of Tom |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | vagabond | a burn *not said here* |  |  |  | on Tom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material burn=Product |
| 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | vagabond | no more good oak sapling |  |  |  |  | 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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