--- title: I have endeavoured to include in this volume the best and most typic… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I have endeavoured to include in this volume the best and most typical stories told by the chief masters of the Celtic folk-tale, Campbell, Kennedy, Hyde, and Curtin, and to these I have added the best tales scattered elsewhere. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/2/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [\_to Alfred Nutt\_](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/2/) / 44 # Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 44 I have endeavoured to include in this volume the best and most typical stories told by the chief masters of the Celtic folk-tale, Campbell, Kennedy, Hyde, and Curtin, and to these I have added the best tales scattered elsewhere. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** endeavour, include, tell, add, scatter · **To what, where:** Curtin, volume, typical stories, these, best tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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. **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:pg7885:2:44 # text = I have endeavoured to include in this volume the best and most typical stories told by the chief masters of the Celtic folk-tale, Campbell, Kennedy, Hyde, and Curtin, and to these I have added the best tales scattered elsewhere. 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 endeavoured endeavour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 include include VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 volume volume NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 appos _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 13 advmod _ _ 13 typical typical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 masters master NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 22 Celtic celtic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Campbell Campbell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Kennedy Kennedy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Hyde Hyde PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 Curtin Curtin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 44 amod _ _ 44 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 45 scattered scatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 46 elsewhere elsewhere ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **endeavour** | present · perfect | I | Curtin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **include** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | in this volume and typical stories *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in volume=Goal | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | typical stories *not said here* | | | | by the chief masters of the Celtic folk tale | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive | | these | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **scatter** | participle | | the best tales *not said here* | | | | elsewhere *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/2/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/2/45/) - ↑ back to [\_to Alfred Nutt\_](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/2/)