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title: Another point of interest in these Celtic folk-tales is the light th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Another point of interest in these Celtic folk-tales is the light they throw upon the relation of hero-tales and folk-tales (classes 2 and 3 above). Who acts: point, tales. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 57

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Another point of interest in these Celtic folk-tales is the light they throw upon the relation of hero-tales and folk-tales (classes 2 and 3 above).

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**Who acts:** point, tales · **What happens:** be, throw, point · **To what, where:** light, relation, interest

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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 (point, 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:pg7885:34:57
# text = Another point of interest in these Celtic folk-tales is the light they throw upon the relation of hero-tales and folk-tales (classes 2 and 3 above).
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	flat	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	above	above	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is a** | present | another point of interest in Celtic folk tales | the light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | present | tales *= tale* | the light *not said here* |  | the relation of hero tales and folk tales and classes |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme upon relation=Destination |
| 3 | **point** |  |  | interest in Celtic folk tales |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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