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title: In order that the tales should be characteristically Celtic, I have… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In order that the tales should be characteristically Celtic, I have paid more particular attention to tales that are to be found on both sides of the North Channel. Who acts: tales, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 20

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In order that the tales should be characteristically Celtic, I have paid more particular attention to tales that are to be found on both sides of the North Channel.

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**Who acts:** tales, I · **What happens:** be, pay, find · **To what, where:** order, particular attention, tales, sides

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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 (tales, 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:pg7885:2:20
# text = In order that the tales should be characteristically Celtic, I have paid more particular attention to tales that are to be found on both sides of the North Channel.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	characteristically	characteristically	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Channel	Channel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | the tales | order *not said here* |  |  |  | celtic, characteristically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | present · perfect | I | particular attention |  | order |  | to tales | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive | I *not said here* | tales |  | both sides of the North Channel |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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