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title: Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xvii., "Sea Maiden"). — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xvii., "Sea Maiden"). A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 21

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Celtic Fairy Tales\_, No. xvii., "Sea Maiden").

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:35:21
# text = Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xvii., "Sea Maiden").
1	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	No.	no.	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	xvii	xvii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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