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title: But the closest parallel is given by Miss Maclintock's Donegal tale… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the closest parallel is given by Miss Maclintock's Donegal tale of "Jamie Freel and the Young Lady," reprinted in Mr. Yeats' _Irish Folk and Fairy Tales_, 52-9. Who acts: Donegal tale, Jamie. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Guleesh., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, II. Guleesh., sentence 7

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But the closest parallel is given by Miss Maclintock's Donegal tale of "Jamie Freel and the Young Lady," reprinted in Mr. Yeats' \_Irish Folk and Fairy Tales\_, 52-9.

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**Who acts:** Donegal tale, Jamie · **What happens:** give, reprint, tell · **To what, where:** closest parallel, Yeats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Guleesh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Donegal tale, Jamie), 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:pg7885:36:7
# text = But the closest parallel is given by Miss Maclintock's Donegal tale of "Jamie Freel and the Young Lady," reprinted in Mr. Yeats' _Irish Folk and Fairy Tales_, 52-9.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Maclintock	Maclintock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	Donegal	Donegal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Jamie	Jamie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	Freel	Freel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	reprinted	reprint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	Yeats	yeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	52-9	52-9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **give** | present · passive | Miss's Donegal tale of Jamie and the Young Lady | the closest parallel |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reprint** | participle | Miss's Donegal tale of Jamie and the Young Lady *not said here* |  |  | Yeats  Mr.  Irish Folk and Fairy Tales |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** |  | Jamie and the Young Lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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