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title: While I have endeavoured to render the language of the tales simple… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While I have endeavoured to render the language of the tales simple and free from bookish artifice, I have not felt at liberty to retell the tales in the English way. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 34

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While I have endeavoured to render the language of the tales simple and free from bookish artifice, I have not felt at liberty to retell the tales in the English way.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** endeavour, render, not feel, retell · **To what, where:** language, liberty, tales, English way

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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), 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:pg7885:2:34
# text = While I have endeavoured to render the language of the tales simple and free from bookish artifice, I have not felt at liberty to retell the tales in the English way.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	bookish	bookish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	artifice	artifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	retell	retell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endeavour** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **render** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the language of the tales |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **feel** | present · perfect | I |  |  | liberty |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at liberty=Location |
| 4 | **retell** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the tales |  | the English way |  |  | tree rules |

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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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