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title: Besides this interest it contains an early account of one of the mos… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides this interest it contains an early account of one of the most characteristic Celtic conceptions, that of the earthly Paradise, the Isle of Youth, _Tir-nan-Og_. Who acts: interest. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., with its dependency tree a
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 32

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Besides this interest it contains an early account of one of the most characteristic Celtic conceptions, that of the earthly Paradise, the Isle of Youth, \_Tir-nan-Og\_.

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**Who acts:** interest · **What happens:** contain · **To what, where:** early account

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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 (interest), 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:pg7885:35:32
# text = Besides this interest it contains an early account of one of the most characteristic Celtic conceptions, that of the earthly Paradise, the Isle of Youth, _Tir-nan-Og_.
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	conceptions	conception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Youth	Youth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Tir	Tir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Og	Og	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | interest | a early account of one of the characteristic Celtic conceptions and the earthly Paradise and Tir nan |  |  |  | besides this interest | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot account=Theme |

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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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