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title: The contrast of Past and Present has never been more vividly or beau… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The contrast of Past and Present has never been more vividly or beautifully represented. 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 43

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The contrast of Past and Present has never been more vividly or beautifully represented.

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**What happens:** not be, represent · **To what, where:** contrast

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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: 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:pg7885:35:43
# text = The contrast of Past and Present has never been more vividly or beautifully represented.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Past	Past	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Present	Present	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	vividly	vividly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | vividly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | present · perfect · passive |  | the contrast of Past and Present |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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