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title: Thunder and fire! where did you get it?" — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thunder and fire! where did you get it?" Who acts: you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 16

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Thunder and fire! where did you get it?"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** fire

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7885:7:16
# text = Thunder and fire! where did you get it?"
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	discourse	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | you | fire |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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