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title: You have freed your two sons, but tell me a case in which you ever w… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You have freed your two sons, but tell me a case in which you ever were that is harder than to be looking on your son being hanged tomorrow, and you shall get the soul of your eldest son." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 157

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You have freed your two sons, but tell me a case in which you ever were that is harder than to be looking on your son being hanged tomorrow, and you shall get the soul of your eldest son."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** free, tell, be, look, get · **To what, where:** You, case, me, soul · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. 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:pg7885:9:157
# text = You have freed your two sons, but tell me a case in which you ever were that is harder than to be looking on your son being hanged tomorrow, and you shall get the soul of your eldest son."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	ccomp	_	_
21	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
29	hanged	hanged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **free** | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | a case | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient case=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | ever | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive · progressive |  |  |  |  | tomorrow | on your son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on son=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hanged *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | shall | you | the soul of your eldest son |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soul=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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