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title: The stories collected in this volume are longer and more detailed th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The stories collected in this volume are longer and more detailed than the English ones I brought together last Christmas. Who acts: stories, 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 26

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The stories collected in this volume are longer and more detailed than the English ones I brought together last Christmas.

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**Who acts:** stories, I · **What happens:** collect, be, bring together · **To what, where:** stories, volume, last Christmas

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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 (stories, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7885:25`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:2:26
# text = The stories collected in this volume are longer and more detailed than the English ones I brought together last Christmas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	detailed	detailed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | participle |  | the stories *not said here* |  | this volume |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the stories |  |  |  |  | than the English ones; long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring together** | past | I | last Christmas |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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