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title: FAIR, BROWN, AND TREMBLING XX. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: FAIR, BROWN, AND TREMBLING XX. 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 19

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FAIR, BROWN, AND TREMBLING XX.

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**What happens:** tremble · **To what, where:** XX

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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:pg7885:3:19
# text = FAIR, BROWN, AND TREMBLING XX.
1	FAIR	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	BROWN	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	TREMBLING	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	XX	XX	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | gerund |  | XX |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location xx=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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