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title: If the king, and queen, and princess, made much of him before, they… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If the king, and queen, and princess, made much of him before, they made ten times more of him now; but Redhead, the mean scruff-hound, stole over, and thought to catch hold of the flail to make an end of him. Who acts: claws, Redhead. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad Wit
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 89

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If the king, and queen, and princess, made much of him before, they made ten times more of him now; but Redhead, the mean scruff-hound, stole over, and thought to catch hold of the flail to make an end of him.

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**Who acts:** claws, Redhead · **What happens:** make, steal over, think, catch, hold · **To what, where:** princess, more, hold, end, flail

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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 (claws, Redhead), 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:pg7885:33:89
# text = If the king, and queen, and princess, made much of him before, they made ten times more of him now; but Redhead, the mean scruff-hound, stole over, and thought to catch hold of the flail to make an end of him.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	Redhead	Redhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	scruff	scruff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
35	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
36	over	over	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	flail	flail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | princess *not said here* |  |  |  | before, much *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **make** | past | claws *= claw* | more |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product |
| 3 | **steal over** | past | Redhead |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | claws *= claw* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | claws *= claw* *not said here* | hold of the flail |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | claws *= claw* *not said here* | a end of Tom |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |
| 7 | **hold** |  |  | the flail |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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