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title: The Manx folk-tales published, including the most recent by Mr. Moor… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Manx folk-tales published, including the most recent by Mr. Moore, in his _Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man_, 1891, are mainly fairy anecdotes and legends. Who acts: Manx folk tales. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 51

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The Manx folk-tales published, including the most recent by Mr. Moore, in his \_Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man\_, 1891, are mainly fairy anecdotes and legends.

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**Who acts:** Manx folk tales · **What happens:** publish, be · **To what, where:** Manx folk tales, fairy anecdotes

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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 (Manx folk tales), 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:pg7885:34:51
# text = The Manx folk-tales published, including the most recent by Mr. Moore, in his _Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man_, 1891, are mainly fairy anecdotes and legends.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Manx	manx	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
6	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	including	including	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Moore	Moore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	1891	1891	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	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 | **publish** | participle |  | the Manx folk tales in Moore's Folk Lore of the Isle of Man *not said here* |  |  |  | by Moore  Mr. | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Manx folk tales in Moore's Folk Lore of the Isle of Man | fairy anecdotes and legends |  |  |  | mainly *property* | tree rules |

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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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