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title: "I cannot," said the door, "for the beam is fixed in the jambs and I… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "I cannot," said the door, "for the beam is fixed in the jambs and I have no power to move." Who acts: door. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 29

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"I cannot," said the door, "for the beam is fixed in the jambs and I have no power to move."

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**Who acts:** door · **What happens:** say, fix, have, move · **To what, where:** beam, jambs, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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:pg7885:8:29
# text = "I cannot," said the door, "for the beam is fixed in the jambs and I have no power to move."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	jambs	jamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the door |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fix** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the beam |  | the jambs |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the door *= door* | no power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 4 | **move** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the door *= door* *not said here* | no power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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