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title: I have selected as a specimen of this class the Story of Deirdre, co… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have selected as a specimen of this class the Story of Deirdre, collected among the Scotch peasantry a few years ago, into which I have been able to insert a passage taken from an Irish vellum of the twelfth century. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 41

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I have selected as a specimen of this class the Story of Deirdre, collected among the Scotch peasantry a few years ago, into which I have been able to insert a passage taken from an Irish vellum of the twelfth century.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** select, collect, be, insert, take · **To what, where:** passage, Irish vellum

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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:pg7885:2:41
# text = I have selected as a specimen of this class the Story of Deirdre, collected among the Scotch peasantry a few years ago, into which I have been able to insert a passage taken from an Irish vellum of the twelfth century.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
30	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	insert	insert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	vellum	vellum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | as a specimen of this class | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as specimen=Attribute |
| 2 | **collect** | past |  |  |  |  |  | among the Scotch peasantry; ago *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **insert** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a passage |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | participle |  | a passage *not said here* |  | a Irish vellum of the twelfth century |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from vellum=Initial\_Location |

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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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