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title: Care, however, has to be taken in using folk-tales as evidence for p… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Care, however, has to be taken in using folk-tales as evidence for primitive practice among the nations where they are found. Who acts: Care. 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 69

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Care, however, has to be taken in using folk-tales as evidence for primitive practice among the nations where they are found.

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**Who acts:** Care · **What happens:** have, take, use, find · **To what, where:** folk tales, tales

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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 (Care), 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:pg7885:34:69
# text = Care, however, has to be taken in using folk-tales as evidence for primitive practice among the nations where they are found.
1	Care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Care |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive · passive | Care *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | Care *not said here* | folk tales |  |  |  | as evidence for primitive practice; among the nations | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tale=Duration as evidence=Attribute |
| 4 | **find** | present · passive |  | tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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