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title: By this means I hope I have put together a volume, containing both t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By this means I hope I have put together a volume, containing both the best, and the best known folk-tales of the Celts. Who acts: this, I, Celts. 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 45

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By this means I hope I have put together a volume, containing both the best, and the best known folk-tales of the Celts.

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**Who acts:** this, I, Celts · **What happens:** mean, hope, put together, contain, know, tell · **To what, where:** volume, best · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (this, I, Celts), 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:pg7885:2:45
# text = By this means I hope I have put together a volume, containing both the best, and the best known folk-tales of the Celts.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc:preconj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
21	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
22	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hope** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **put together** | present · perfect | I | a volume |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent volume=Goal |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | I *not said here* | the best |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot good=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **tell** |  | the Celts |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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