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title: Tom run at him as soon as he could rise, caught his hands in his own… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tom run at him as soon as he could rise, caught his hands in his own two, and rubbed them this way and that, and the burning pain left them before you could reckon one. Who acts: Tom, burning pain, you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its depende
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 91

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Tom run at him as soon as he could rise, caught his hands in his own two, and rubbed them this way and that, and the burning pain left them before you could reckon one.

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**Who acts:** Tom, burning pain, you · **What happens:** run, rise, catch, rub, leave, reckon · **To what, where:** hands, own two, one

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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 (Tom, burning pain, you), 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:pg7885:33:91
# text = Tom run at him as soon as he could rise, caught his hands in his own two, and rubbed them this way and that, and the burning pain left them before you could reckon one.
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Tom |  |  |  |  | at flail; soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **rise** | could | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | past |  | Tom's hands |  | Tom's own two |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **rub** | past |  | hands *= hand* |  |  |  | this way *obl:unmarked* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | past | the burning pain | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **reckon** | could | you | one |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent one=Attribute |

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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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