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title: Dr. Joyce has a somewhat florid version in, his _Old Celtic Romances… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dr. Joyce has a somewhat florid version in, his _Old Celtic Romances_, from which I have borrowed a touch or two. Who acts: Joyce, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 11

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Dr. Joyce has a somewhat florid version in, his \_Old Celtic Romances\_, from which I have borrowed a touch or two.

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**Who acts:** Joyce, I · **What happens:** have, borrow, romance · **To what, where:** florid version, touch

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joyce, I), 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:pg7885:35:11
# text = Dr. Joyce has a somewhat florid version in, his _Old Celtic Romances_, from which I have borrowed a touch or two.
1	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Joyce	Joyce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	florid	florid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Romances	romance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Joyce  Dr. | a florid version |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient |
| 2 | **borrow** | present · perfect | I | a touch |  | a florid version |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent touch=Theme from which=Source |
| 3 | **romance** |  | Joyce |  |  |  |  |  | nom romance «state intransitive»: 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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