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title: Borrow, in his _Wild Wales_, refers to a collection of fables in a j… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Borrow, in his _Wild Wales_, refers to a collection of fables in a journal called _The Greal_, while the _Cambrian Quarterly Magazine_ for 1830 and 1831 contained a few fairy anecdotes, including a curious version of the "Brewery of Eggshells" from the Welsh. Who acts: you, Cambrian Quarterly Magazi
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 47

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Borrow, in his \_Wild Wales\_, refers to a collection of fables in a journal called \_The Greal\_, while the \_Cambrian Quarterly Magazine\_ for 1830 and 1831 contained a few fairy anecdotes, including a curious version of the "Brewery of Eggshells" from the Welsh.

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**Who acts:** you, Cambrian Quarterly Magazine · **What happens:** borrow, refer, call, contain · **To what, where:** journal, few fairy anecdotes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Cambrian Quarterly Magazine), 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:pg7885:34:47
# text = Borrow, in his _Wild Wales_, refers to a collection of fables in a journal called _The Greal_, while the _Cambrian Quarterly Magazine_ for 1830 and 1831 contained a few fairy anecdotes, including a curious version of the "Brewery of Eggshells" from the Welsh.
1	Borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	journal	journal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Greal	Greal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Cambrian	Cambrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	Quarterly	Quarterly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Magazine	Magazine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1830	1830	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	appos	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	1831	1831	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	conj	_	_
36	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	including	including	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	Brewery	Brewery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Eggshells	Eggshell	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | \_'s \_ Wild Wales *vocative* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refer** | present |  |  |  | a journal |  | to a collection of fables | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to collection=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a journal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **contain** | past | the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine | a few fairy anecdotes |  |  |  | including a curious version of the Brewery of Eggshells from the Welsh | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anecdote=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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