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title: It may be as well to give the reader some account of the enormous ex… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It may be as well to give the reader some account of the enormous extent of the Celtic folk-tales in existence. Who acts: It. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 1

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It may be as well to give the reader some account of the enormous extent of the Celtic folk-tales in existence.

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**Who acts:** It · **What happens:** be, account, extend · **To what, where:** enormous extent, Celtic folk tales

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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:pg7885:34:1
# text = It may be as well to give the reader some account of the enormous extent of the Celtic folk-tales in existence.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	7	cc	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | It |  |  |  |  | give *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **account** |  |  | the enormous extent of the Celtic folk tales in existence |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **extend** |  |  | the Celtic folk tales in existence |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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