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title: "Throughout the world there is not a comb or scissors with which I c… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Throughout the world there is not a comb or scissors with which I can arrange my hair, on, account of its rankness, except the comb and scissors that are between the two ears of Turch Truith, the son of Prince Tared. Who acts: Yspathaden, scissors. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacob
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 85

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"Throughout the world there is not a comb or scissors with which I can arrange my hair, on, account of its rankness, except the comb and scissors that are between the two ears of Turch Truith, the son of Prince Tared.

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**Who acts:** Yspathaden, scissors · **What happens:** not be, arrange, be, account · **To what, where:** comb, hair, rankness

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yspathaden, scissors), 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:pg7885:17:85
# text = "Throughout the world there is not a comb or scissors with which I can arrange my hair, on, account of its rankness, except the comb and scissors that are between the two ears of Turch Truith, the son of Prince Tared.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	rankness	rankness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	except	except	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	between	between	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	acl:relcl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Turch	Turch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	Truith	Truith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod:desc	_	_
46	Tared	Tared	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a comb or scissors and account of account's rankness and the comb and scissors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrange** *in a quote* | can | Yspathaden | my hair |  |  |  | with scissors | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Patient with which=Instrument |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | scissors |  |  |  |  | between the two ears; of Turch | tree rules |
| 4 | **account** *in a quote* |  |  | account's rankness |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication 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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