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title: If this volume does anything to represent to English children the vi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If this volume does anything to represent to English children the vision and colour, the magic and charm, of the Celtic folk-imagination, this is due in large measure to the care with which Mr. Nutt has watched its inception and progress. Who acts: volume, this, Nutt. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tal
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 51

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If this volume does anything to represent to English children the vision and colour, the magic and charm, of the Celtic folk-imagination, this is due in large measure to the care with which Mr. Nutt has watched its inception and progress.

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**Who acts:** volume, this, Nutt · **What happens:** do, represent, be, watch · **To what, where:** anything, inception

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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 (volume, this, Nutt), 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:pg7885:2:51
# text = If this volume does anything to represent to English children the vision and colour, the magic and charm, of the Celtic folk-imagination, this is due in large measure to the care with which Mr. Nutt has watched its inception and progress.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
39	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:desc	_	_
40	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
43	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	inception	inception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | this volume | anything |  |  |  | of the Celtic folk imagination | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 2 | **represent** | to-infinitive | this volume *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  | to English children | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to child=Attribute |
| 3 | **be** | present | this |  |  |  |  | due *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **watch** | present · perfect | Nutt  Mr. | volume's inception and progress |  |  |  | with the care | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inception=Theme |

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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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