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title: "Of heath!" said Tom, bursting out laughing; "sure you don't think m… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Of heath!" said Tom, bursting out laughing; "sure you don't think me to be such a fool as to believe that?" Who acts: Of heath, 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 23

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"Of heath!" said Tom, bursting out laughing; "sure you don't think me to be such a fool as to believe that?"

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**Who acts:** Of heath, you · **What happens:** say, burst out, laugh, not think, be, believe · **To what, where:** Of heath, fool, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Of heath, 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:pg7885:7:23
# text = "Of heath!" said Tom, bursting out laughing; "sure you don't think me to be such a fool as to believe that?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Of	of	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Of heath |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **burst out** | gerund | Of heath *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | gerund | Of heath *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Of heath *= heath* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | such fool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **believe** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=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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