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title: Sampson Low & Co., for the use of Mr. Curtin's Tales. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sampson Low & Co., for the use of Mr. Curtin's Tales. 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 49

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Sampson Low & Co., for the use of Mr. Curtin's Tales.

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**What happens:** use · **To what, where:** Curtin Tales

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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: 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:pg7885:2:49
# text = Sampson Low & Co., for the use of Mr. Curtin's Tales.
1	Sampson	Sampson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Co.	co.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Curtin	Curtin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** |  |  | Curtin Tales |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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