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title: A few words unknown to the reader only add effectiveness and local c… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A few words unknown to the reader only add effectiveness and local colour to a narrative, as Mr. Kipling well knows. Who acts: few words, Kipling. 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 36

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A few words unknown to the reader only add effectiveness and local colour to a narrative, as Mr. Kipling well knows.

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**Who acts:** few words, Kipling · **What happens:** add, know · **To what, where:** effectiveness

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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 (few words, Kipling), 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:pg7885:2:36
# text = A few words unknown to the reader only add effectiveness and local colour to a narrative, as Mr. Kipling well knows.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	effectiveness	effectiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | a few words | effectiveness and local colour |  |  |  | to a narrative | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent effectiveness=Patient to narrative=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present | Kipling  Mr. |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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