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title: It is hard to get out of this; let us make for ourselves five hiding… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is hard to get out of this; let us make for ourselves five hiding holes, so that if they hear us we may go and hide." Who acts: us, holes, we. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 26

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It is hard to get out of this; let us make for ourselves five hiding holes, so that if they hear us we may go and hide."

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**Who acts:** us, holes, we · **What happens:** be, get out, let, make, hide, hear · **To what, where:** this, us, five hiding holes

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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 (us, holes, we), 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:pg7885:9:26
# text = It is hard to get out of this; let us make for ourselves five hiding holes, so that if they hear us we may go and hide."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
15	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | us *not said here* | five hiding holes |  |  |  | for ourselves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent hole=Product for ourselves=Asset |
| 5 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | holes *= hole* | us |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
| 7 | **go** | may | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hide** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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