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title: Practically, I have reserved _thou_ for the speech of giants, who ma… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Practically, I have reserved _thou_ for the speech of giants, who may be supposed to be somewhat old-fashioned. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 6

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Practically, I have reserved \_thou\_ for the speech of giants, who may be supposed to be somewhat old-fashioned.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** reserve, suppose, be, speak · **To what, where:** thou, speech, giants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7885:58:6
# text = Practically, I have reserved _thou_ for the speech of giants, who may be supposed to be somewhat old-fashioned.
1	Practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
21	somewhat	somewhat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reserve** | present · perfect | I | thou |  |  |  | for the speech of giants; practically *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for speech=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **suppose** | may · passive |  | the speech of giants |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fashioned *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** |  |  | giants |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication 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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