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title: Perhaps the Eisteddfod, by offering prizes for the collection of Wel… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps the Eisteddfod, by offering prizes for the collection of Welsh folk-tales, may remove this inferiority. 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 7

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Perhaps the Eisteddfod, by offering prizes for the collection of Welsh folk-tales, may remove this inferiority.

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**What happens:** offer, remove · **To what, where:** prizes, inferiority

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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:pg7885:2:7
# text = Perhaps the Eisteddfod, by offering prizes for the collection of Welsh folk-tales, may remove this inferiority.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Eisteddfod	Eisteddfod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
7	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	inferiority	inferiority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | gerund |  | prizes |  |  |  | for the collection of Welsh folk tales *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for collection=Goal |
| 2 | **remove** | may |  | this inferiority |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inferiority=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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