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title: Now the remarkable thing is, how these hero tales have lingered on i… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the remarkable thing is, how these hero tales have lingered on in oral tradition even to the present day. 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 61

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Now the remarkable thing is, how these hero tales have lingered on in oral tradition even to the present day.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** remarkable thing, oral tradition

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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: 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:pg7885:34:61
# text = Now the remarkable thing is, how these hero tales have lingered on in oral tradition even to the present day.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	lingered	linger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect · passive |  | the remarkable thing |  | oral tradition to the present day | now | linger *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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