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title: THE SEA-MAIDEN XVIII. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE SEA-MAIDEN XVIII. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs., sentence 17

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THE SEA-MAIDEN XVIII.

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs.. 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:pg7885:3:17
# text = THE SEA-MAIDEN XVIII.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	SEA	SEA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	MAIDEN	MAIDEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	XVIII	XVIII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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