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title: This careful accuracy has given an un-English air to his versions, a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This careful accuracy has given an un-English air to his versions, and has prevented them attaining their due popularity. 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 32

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This careful accuracy has given an un-English air to his versions, and has prevented them attaining their due popularity.

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**What happens:** give, prevent, attain · **To what, where:** careful accuracy, versions, due popularity

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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: 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:pg7885:34:32
# text = This careful accuracy has given an un-English air to his versions, and has prevented them attaining their due popularity.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	un-English	un-english	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	attaining	attain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	popularity	popularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **give** | present · perfect · passive |  | this careful accuracy |  |  |  | to Islay's versions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient air=Theme |
| 2 | **prevent** | present · perfect |  | versions *= version* |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme |
| 3 | **attain** | gerund |  | versions's due popularity |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent popularity=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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