--- title: The former number exceeds that known in France, Italy, Germany, and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The former number exceeds that known in France, Italy, Germany, and Russia, where collection has been most active, and is only exceeded by the MS. collection of Finnish folk-tales at Helsingfors, said to exceed 12,000. Who acts: former number, collection, MS. collection, Russia. A sentence of «Celti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Notes and References](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/) / 3 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 3 The former number exceeds that known in France, Italy, Germany, and Russia, where collection has been most active, and is only exceeded by the MS. collection of Finnish folk-tales at Helsingfors, said to exceed 12,000. **Who acts:** former number, collection, MS. collection, Russia · **What happens:** exceed, know, be, say · **To what, where:** France, 12,000 · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (former number, collection, MS. collection, Russia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:34:3 # text = The former number exceeds that known in France, Italy, Germany, and Russia, where collection has been most active, and is only exceeded by the MS. collection of Finnish folk-tales at Helsingfors, said to exceed 12,000. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 exceeds exceed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 15 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 18 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 21 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 22 advmod _ _ 22 active active ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 exceeded exceed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 MS. MS. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 Finnish finnish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Helsingfors Helsingfors PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 40 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 exceed exceed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 12,000 12,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exceed** | present | the former number | | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **know** | participle | the former number *not said here* | | | France and Italy and Germany | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present · perfect | collection | | | | | active *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **exceed** | present · passive | the MS. collection of Finnish folk tales at Helsingfors | | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Russia | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **exceed** | to-infinitive | Russia *not said here* | 12,000 | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 12,000=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/4/) - ↑ back to [Notes and References](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/)