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title: Certainly I had no liking at all for the cronan, but up came the one… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly I had no liking at all for the cronan, but up came the one cat and ten, and if they did not sing me a cronan then and there! ' Who acts: I, children. 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 74

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Certainly I had no liking at all for the cronan, but up came the one cat and ten, and if they did not sing me a cronan then and there! '

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**Who acts:** I, children · **What happens:** have, come, not sing · **To what, where:** liking, all, one cat, cronan, me

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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 (I, children), 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:pg7885:9:74
# text = Certainly I had no liking at all for the cronan, but up came the one cat and ten, and if they did not sing me a cronan then and there! '
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	liking	liking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cronan	cronan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cronan	cronan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | no liking |  | all |  | certainly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liking=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | I *not said here* | the one cat |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | children *= child* | a cronan | me |  | then |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary cronan=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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