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title: In re-telling them I have had no scruple in interpolating now and th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In re-telling them I have had no scruple in interpolating now and then a Scotch incident into an Irish variant of the same story, or _vice versa_. Who acts: I, scruple, same story. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 21

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In re-telling them I have had no scruple in interpolating now and then a Scotch incident into an Irish variant of the same story, or \_vice versa\_.

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**Who acts:** I, scruple, same story · **What happens:** re-tell, have, interpolate, vary · **To what, where:** Tales, scruple, Irish variant

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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, scruple, same story), 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:pg7885:2:21
# text = In re-telling them I have had no scruple in interpolating now and then a Scotch incident into an Irish variant of the same story, or _vice versa_.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	re-telling	re-tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	scruple	scruple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	interpolating	interpolate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Scotch	scotch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	vice	vice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
29	versa	versa	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **re-tell** | gerund | I *not said here* | Tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present · perfect | I | no scruple |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scruple=Patient |
| 3 | **interpolate** | gerund | no scruple *not said here* |  |  | a Irish variant of the same story | now |  | vn multiply-108-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **vary** |  | the same story |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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