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title: But beside these more modern collections there exist in old and midd… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But beside these more modern collections there exist in old and middle Irish a large number of hero-tales (class 2) which formed the staple of the old _ollahms_ or bards. Who acts: modern collections. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 22

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But beside these more modern collections there exist in old and middle Irish a large number of hero-tales (class 2) which formed the staple of the old \_ollahms\_ or bards.

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**Who acts:** modern collections · **What happens:** exist, form · **To what, where:** Irish large number, staple

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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 (modern collections), 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:pg7885:34:22
# text = But beside these more modern collections there exist in old and middle Irish a large number of hero-tales (class 2) which formed the staple of the old _ollahms_ or bards.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	staple	staple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	ollahms	ollahm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **exist** | present | this modern collections | a Irish large number of hero tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | past |  | the staple of the old ollahms or bards |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location staple=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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