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title: Chapbooks, _Royal Fairy Tales_ and _Hibernian Tales_, also contained… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Chapbooks, _Royal Fairy Tales_ and _Hibernian Tales_, also contained genuine folk-tales, and attracted Thackeray's attention in his _Irish Sketch-Book_. Who acts: _ Royal Fairy Tales, Thackeray. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and t
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 13

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Chapbooks, \_Royal Fairy Tales\_ and \_Hibernian Tales\_, also contained genuine folk-tales, and attracted Thackeray's attention in his \_Irish Sketch-Book\_.

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**Who acts:** \_ Royal Fairy Tales, Thackeray · **What happens:** contain, attract, attend · **To what, where:** genuine folk tales, attention, Irish Sketch Book

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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 (\_ Royal Fairy Tales, Thackeray), 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:pg7885:34:13
# text = Chapbooks, _Royal Fairy Tales_ and _Hibernian Tales_, also contained genuine folk-tales, and attracted Thackeray's attention in his _Irish Sketch-Book_.
1	Chapbooks	chapbook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Hibernian	Hibernian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
16	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
23	Thackeray	Thackeray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	Sketch	Sketch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **contain** | participle | \_ Royal Fairy Tales and Hibernian Tales *not said here* | genuine folk tales |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme |
| 2 | **attract** | past | \_ Royal Fairy Tales and Hibernian Tales *not said here* | Thackeray's attention |  | Thackeray's Irish Sketch Book |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 3 | **attend** |  | Thackeray |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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