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title: The interesting thing to notice is the remarkable similarity of Scot… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The interesting thing to notice is the remarkable similarity of Scotch and Irish folk-tales. Who acts: interesting thing. 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 53

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The interesting thing to notice is the remarkable similarity of Scotch and Irish folk-tales.

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**Who acts:** interesting thing · **What happens:** notice, be · **To what, where:** remarkable similarity

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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 (interesting thing), 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:pg7885:34:53
# text = The interesting thing to notice is the remarkable similarity of Scotch and Irish folk-tales.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	similarity	similarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Scotch	scotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | to-infinitive | the interesting thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the interesting thing | the remarkable similarity and Irish folk tales |  |  |  | of Scotch | 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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