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title: "Why," said Conall, "should not I do the pleasure of the king, thoug… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Why," said Conall, "should not I do the pleasure of the king, though there should be no souls of my sons in dread at all. Who acts: Conall, souls. 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 7

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"Why," said Conall, "should not I do the pleasure of the king, though there should be no souls of my sons in dread at all.

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**Who acts:** Conall, souls · **What happens:** say, not do, be, please · **To what, where:** pleasure, 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 (Conall, souls), 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:pg7885:9:7
# text = "Why," said Conall, "should not I do the pleasure of the king, though there should be no souls of my sons in dread at all.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Conall	Conall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Conall |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | should | Conall | the pleasure of the king |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Eventuality |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | should | no souls of my sons in dread at all |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **please** *in a quote* |  |  | the king |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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