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title: This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. Who acts: time, trouble, my. 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 3

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This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection.

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**Who acts:** time, trouble, my · **What happens:** offer, be, fancy, trouble · **To what, where:** Tales, one, Celts

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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 (time, trouble, my), 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:pg7885:2:3
# text = This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | gerund | this time *not said here* | Tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal specimen=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present · perfect | my trouble | one |  |  |  | of selection | tree rules |
| 3 | **fancy** |  |  | the Celts of this islands |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **trouble** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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