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title: "Isn't he a prime lad, the same lad! to take a woman with him that n… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Isn't he a prime lad, the same lad! to take a woman with him that never said as much to him as, 'How do you do?' since this time last year!" says the third man. Who acts: man, you, third man. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, with its dependen
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 15

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"Isn't he a prime lad, the same lad! to take a woman with him that never said as much to him as, 'How do you do?' since this time last year!" says the third man.

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**Who acts:** man, you, third man · **What happens:** not be, take, not say, do, say · **To what, where:** prime lad, woman, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, third man), 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:pg7885:6:15
# text = "Isn't he a prime lad, the same lad! to take a woman with him that never said as much to him as, 'How do you do?' since this time last year!" says the third man.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
35	since	since	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
42	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	45	amod	_	_
45	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | man | a prime lad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  | a woman |  | time; year | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | man *not said here* | much |  |  |  | to man | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the third man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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