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title: Celtic tales are of peculiar interest in this connection, as they af… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Celtic tales are of peculiar interest in this connection, as they afford one of the best fields for studying the problem of diffusion, the most pressing of the problems of the folk-tales just at present, at least in my opinion. Who acts: Celtic tales, tales, my. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 71

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Celtic tales are of peculiar interest in this connection, as they afford one of the best fields for studying the problem of diffusion, the most pressing of the problems of the folk-tales just at present, at least in my opinion.

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**Who acts:** Celtic tales, tales, my · **What happens:** be, afford, study, press, opine · **To what, where:** connection, one, problem

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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 (Celtic tales, tales, my), 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:pg7885:34:71
# text = Celtic tales are of peculiar interest in this connection, as they afford one of the best fields for studying the problem of diffusion, the most pressing of the problems of the folk-tales just at present, at least in my opinion.
1	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
37	just	just	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	obl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Celtic tales |  |  | this connection |  | of peculiar interest | tree rules |
| 2 | **afford** | infinitive | tales *= tale* | one of the best fields |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **study** | gerund | tales *= tale* *not said here* | the problem of diffusion |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic |
| 4 | **press** | gerund | tales *= tale* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the problems of the folk tales; at least; at present | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at present=Theme |
| 5 | **opine** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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