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title: "It might be sport to others," replied the story-teller looking at h… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "It might be sport to others," replied the story-teller looking at his wife, "for my part I could well put up with the loss of it." Who acts: sport, story teller. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 68

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"It might be sport to others," replied the story-teller looking at his wife, "for my part I could well put up with the loss of it."

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**Who acts:** sport, story teller · **What happens:** be, reply, look, put up · **To what, where:** sport, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sport, story teller), 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:pg7885:20:68
# text = "It might be sport to others," replied the story-teller looking at his wife, "for my part I could well put up with the loss of it."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | might | sport | sport |  |  |  | to others | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the story teller |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the story teller *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at teller's wife; for my part | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wife=Location for part=Theme |
| 4 | **put up** *in a quote* | could | the story teller *= teller* | my part *not said here* |  |  |  | with the loss of sport; well *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent part=Goal |

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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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