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title: But one can have too much even of that very good thing, and I have t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But one can have too much even of that very good thing, and I have therefore avoided as far as possible the more familiar "formulae" of folk-tale literature. Who acts: one, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 11

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But one can have too much even of that very good thing, and I have therefore avoided as far as possible the more familiar "formulae" of folk-tale literature.

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**Who acts:** one, I · **What happens:** have, avoid · **To what, where:** much, familiar formulae

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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: who acts (one, 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:pg7885:2:11
# text = But one can have too much even of that very good thing, and I have therefore avoided as far as possible the more familiar "formulae" of folk-tale literature.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	formulae	formulae	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | can | one | much |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 2 | **avoid** | present · perfect | I | the familiar formulae of tale literature |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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