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title: Be this from me!' said the one-eyed one--'I must not be losing my co… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Be this from me!' said the one-eyed one--'I must not be losing my company thus; gather round the root of the tree and dig about it, and let down that villain to earth.' Who acts: me, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 90

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Be this from me!' said the one-eyed one--'I must not be losing my company thus; gather round the root of the tree and dig about it, and let down that villain to earth.'

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**Who acts:** me, I · **What happens:** be, say, not lose, gather, dig, let down · **To what, where:** eyed one, company, villain, earth · **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 (me, I), 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:pg7885:9:90
# text = Be this from me!' said the one-eyed one--'I must not be losing my company thus; gather round the root of the tree and dig about it, and let down that villain to earth.'
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
25	round	round	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
38	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	villain	villain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from me | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | me | the eyed one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **lose** | must · progressive | I | my company |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Eventuality |
| 4 | **gather** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | round the root of the tree | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dig** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about tree | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location |
| 6 | **let down** | infinitive |  | that villain | earth |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent villain=Theme to earth=Recipient |

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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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