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title: Guleesh, you clown, you thief, that no good may happen you, why did… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Guleesh, you clown, you thief, that no good may happen you, why did you play that trick on us?" Who acts: you, good. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 20

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Guleesh, you clown, you thief, that no good may happen you, why did you play that trick on us?"

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**Who acts:** you, good · **What happens:** clown, thief, happen, play · **To what, where:** you, trick

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, good), 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:pg7885:5:20
# text = Guleesh, you clown, you thief, that no good may happen you, why did you play that trick on us?"
1	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	clown	clown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clown** | present | you |  |  |  |  | Guleesh *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **thief** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | may | no good | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | past · do-support | you | that trick |  |  |  | on us | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |

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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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