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title: It would have been easy, especially from Kennedy, to have made up a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It would have been easy, especially from Kennedy, to have made up a volume entirely filled with "Grimm's Goblins" _a la Celtique_. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 10

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It would have been easy, especially from Kennedy, to have made up a volume entirely filled with "Grimm's Goblins" \_a la Celtique\_.

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**What happens:** be, make up, fill · **To what, where:** volume, Kennedy

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_to Alfred Nutt\_. 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:pg7885:2:10
# text = It would have been easy, especially from Kennedy, to have made up a volume entirely filled with "Grimm's Goblins" _a la Celtique_.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	Goblins	Goblins	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	la	la	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	Celtique	Celtique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | a volume |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme volume=Pivot |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  |  |  | Kennedy |  | with Grimm's Goblins; entirely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with goblins=Instrument |

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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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