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title: To do this I had to withdraw from the English-speaking Pale both in… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To do this I had to withdraw from the English-speaking Pale both in Scotland and Ireland, and I laid down the rule to include only tales that have been taken down from Celtic peasants ignorant of English. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its de
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 12

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To do this I had to withdraw from the English-speaking Pale both in Scotland and Ireland, and I laid down the rule to include only tales that have been taken down from Celtic peasants ignorant of English.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do, have, withdraw, speak, lay down, include · **To what, where:** this, speaking Pale, rule, tales, peasants ignorant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg7885:2:12
# text = To do this I had to withdraw from the English-speaking Pale both in Scotland and Ireland, and I laid down the rule to include only tales that have been taken down from Celtic peasants ignorant of English.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	Pale	pale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc:preconj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	include	include	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	compound	_	_
38	ignorant	ignorant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **withdraw** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the speaking Pale in Scotland and Ireland |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pale=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lay down** | past | I | the rule |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Result |
| 6 | **include** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | tales |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 7 | **take down** | present · perfect · passive |  | tales |  | peasants ignorant of English |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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