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title: Where the translators appealed to English folklorists and scholars,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Where the translators appealed to English folklorists and scholars, I am trying to attract English children. Who acts: translators, I. 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 22

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Where the translators appealed to English folklorists and scholars, I am trying to attract English children.

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**Who acts:** translators, I · **What happens:** appeal, try, attract · **To what, where:** English children

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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 (translators, 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:pg7885:2:22
# text = Where the translators appealed to English folklorists and scholars, I am trying to attract English children.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	translators	translator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appealed	appeal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	folklorists	folklorist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appeal** | past | the translators |  |  |  |  | to English folklorists and scholars | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to folklorist=Experiencer |
| 2 | **try** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **attract** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | English children |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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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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