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title: The Grimms did Croker the honour of translating part of his book, un… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Grimms did Croker the honour of translating part of his book, under the title of _Irische Elfenmaerchen_. Who acts: Grimms, honour. 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 10

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The Grimms did Croker the honour of translating part of his book, under the title of \_Irische Elfenmaerchen\_.

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**Who acts:** Grimms, honour · **What happens:** do, translate, title · **To what, where:** Croker, part, title, Irische

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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 (Grimms, honour), 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:pg7885:34:10
# text = The Grimms did Croker the honour of translating part of his book, under the title of _Irische Elfenmaerchen_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Croker	Croker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	translating	translate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Irische	Irische	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	Elfenmaerchen	Elfenmaerchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the Grimms | Croker |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **translate** | gerund | the honour *not said here* | part of Croker's book |  | the title of Irische |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 3 | **title** |  |  | Irische |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication 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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