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title: This contained some 38 anecdotes of the first class mentioned above,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This contained some 38 anecdotes of the first class mentioned above, anecdotes showing the belief of the Irish peasantry in the existence of fairies, gnomes, goblins, and the like. Who acts: This, anecdotes, fairies. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 9

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This contained some 38 anecdotes of the first class mentioned above, anecdotes showing the belief of the Irish peasantry in the existence of fairies, gnomes, goblins, and the like.

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**Who acts:** This, anecdotes, fairies · **What happens:** contain, mention, show, believe, exist · **To what, where:** 38 anecdotes, first class, belief, Irish peasantry

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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 (This, anecdotes, fairies), 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:pg7885:34:9
# text = This contained some 38 anecdotes of the first class mentioned above, anecdotes showing the belief of the Irish peasantry in the existence of fairies, gnomes, goblins, and the like.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	38	38	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	above	above	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | past | This | some 38 anecdotes of the first class and anecdotes |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anecdote=Theme |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle |  | the first class *not said here* |  |  |  | above *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | anecdotes *not said here* | the belief of the Irish peasantry in the existence of fairies and gnomes and goblins |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent belief=Recipient |
| 4 | **believe** |  |  | the Irish peasantry in the existence of fairies and gnomes and goblins |  |  |  |  | nom belief «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **exist** |  | fairies and gnomes and goblins |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=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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