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title: Campbell, of Islay, whose _Popular Tales_ and MS. collections (partl… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Campbell, of Islay, whose _Popular Tales_ and MS. collections (partly described by Mr. Alfred Nutt in _Folk-Lore_, i. 369-83) contain references to no less than 1281 tales (many of them, of course, variants and scraps). Who acts: Alfred, Folk. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Not
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 5

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Campbell, of Islay, whose \_Popular Tales\_ and MS. collections (partly described by Mr. Alfred Nutt in \_Folk-Lore\_, i. 369-83) contain references to no less than 1281 tales (many of them, of course, variants and scraps).

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**Who acts:** Alfred, Folk · **What happens:** describe, contain · **To what, where:** Campbell collections, references

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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 (Alfred, Folk), 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:pg7885:34:5
# text = Campbell, of Islay, whose _Popular Tales_ and MS. collections (partly described by Mr. Alfred Nutt in _Folk-Lore_, i. 369-83) contain references to no less than 1281 tales (many of them, of course, variants and scraps).
1	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Islay	Islay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	MS.	MS.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
13	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	_
20	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	29	nsubj	_	_
29	369-83	369-83	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
32	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
35	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	37	advmod	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	1281	1281	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	appos	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **describe** | participle · passive | Alfred  Mr. | Campbell collections |  |  |  | partly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | present | Folk | references |  |  |  | to no 1281 tales | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reference=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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