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title: "That is marvellous for me," said the king: "go you to lie down agai… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "That is marvellous for me," said the king: "go you to lie down again, and if I notice it again I will go out myself." Who acts: That, king. 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 40

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"That is marvellous for me," said the king: "go you to lie down again, and if I notice it again I will go out myself."

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**Who acts:** That, king · **What happens:** be, say, go, lie down, notice, go out · **To what, where:** you, thing, king · **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 (That, king), 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:pg7885:9:40
# text = "That is marvellous for me," said the king: "go you to lie down again, and if I notice it again I will go out myself."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	notice	notice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	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* | present | That |  |  |  |  | for the king *= king*; marvellous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie down** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **notice** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the king *= king* | thing |  |  | again |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go out** *in a quote* | future | the king *= king* | the king *= king* |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «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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