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title: "Why, all the about them there is, is that when they were here they… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Why, all the about them there is, is that when they were here they taught us to make beer out of the heath, and the secret's in my family ever since." Who acts: Danes. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 27

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"Why, all the about them there is, is that when they were here they taught us to make beer out of the heath, and the secret's in my family ever since."

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**Who acts:** Danes · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** beer, heath

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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 (Danes), 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:pg7885:7:27
# text = "Why, all the about them there is, is that when they were here they taught us to make beer out of the heath, and the secret's in my family ever since."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	nsubj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
36	since	since	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Danes *= dane* |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Danes *= dane* |  |  |  |  | teach *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Danes *= dane* *not said here* | beer |  | the heath |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beer=Product |

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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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