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title: Tales that travelled to them could go no further and must therefore… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tales that travelled to them could go no further and must therefore be the last links in the chain. Who acts: Tales. 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 73

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Tales that travelled to them could go no further and must therefore be the last links in the chain.

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**Who acts:** Tales · **What happens:** travel, go, be · **To what, where:** tales, last links, chain

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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 (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:pg7885:34:73
# text = Tales that travelled to them could go no further and must therefore be the last links in the chain.
1	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
12	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | Tales |  | tales *= tale* |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to they=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | could | Tales |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | must | Tales *not said here* | the last links |  | the chain |  | therefore *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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