--- title: In the Finn-Saga, Conan harries hell, as readers of _Waverley_ may r… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In the Finn-Saga, Conan harries hell, as readers of _Waverley_ may remember "'Claw for claw, and devil take the shortest nails,' as Conan said to the Devil" (_cf. Who acts: Conan, devil. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/) / 11 # Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 11 In the Finn-Saga, Conan harries hell, as readers of \_Waverley\_ may remember "'Claw for claw, and devil take the shortest nails,' as Conan said to the Devil" (\_cf. **Who acts:** Conan, devil · **What happens:** harry, remember, take, say · **To what, where:** hell, Finn Saga, Claw, shortest nails, Devil · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. 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 (Conan, devil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:60:11 # text = In the Finn-Saga, Conan harries hell, as readers of _Waverley_ may remember "'Claw for claw, and devil take the shortest nails,' as Conan said to the Devil" (_cf. 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Finn Finn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Saga Saga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 Conan Conan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 harries harry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 hell hell NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 readers reader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Waverley Waverley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 18 punct _ _ 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 shortest short ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 Conan Conan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Devil Devil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 _ _ DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ SpaceAfter=No 42 cf cf NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **harry** | present | Conan | hell | | the Finn Saga | | as readers of Waverley | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hell=Patient | | 2 | **remember** | may | Conan *not said here* | Claw | | | | for claw | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present | devil | the shortest nails | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Conan | | the Devil | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to devil=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/12/) - ↑ back to [XXVI. 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