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title: Part of the original is in metrical form, so that the whole is of th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Part of the original is in metrical form, so that the whole is of the _cante-fable_ species which I believe to be the original form of the folk-tale (Cf. Who acts: Part, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 13

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Part of the original is in metrical form, so that the whole is of the \_cante-fable\_ species which I believe to be the original form of the folk-tale (Cf.

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**Who acts:** Part, I · **What happens:** be, believe · **To what, where:** metrical form, species, original form · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Part, 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:pg7885:35:13
# text = Part of the original is in metrical form, so that the whole is of the _cante-fable_ species which I believe to be the original form of the folk-tale (Cf.
1	Part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	cante	cante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
22	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Part of the original |  |  | metrical form |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the whole cante fable and species | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | present | I | species |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the original form |  |  |  | of the folk tale and Cf | 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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