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title: In the _Hibernian Tales_, "Mann o' Malaghan and the Fairies," as rep… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the _Hibernian Tales_, "Mann o' Malaghan and the Fairies," as reported by Thackeray in the _Irish Sketch-Book_, c. xvi., begins like "Guleesh." A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Guleesh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, II. Guleesh., sentence 8

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In the \_Hibernian Tales\_, "Mann o' Malaghan and the Fairies," as reported by Thackeray in the \_Irish Sketch-Book\_, c. xvi., begins like "Guleesh."

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**What happens:** report, begin · **To what, where:** Mann o, Hibernian Tales

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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: 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:pg7885:36:8
# text = In the _Hibernian Tales_, "Mann o' Malaghan and the Fairies," as reported by Thackeray in the _Irish Sketch-Book_, c. xvi., begins like "Guleesh."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hibernian	Hibernian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Tales	Tales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Mann	Mann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Malaghan	Malaghan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Thackeray	Thackeray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	Sketch	Sketch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	c.	c.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	dep	_	_
32	xvi	xvi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
35	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | participle |  | Mann o *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | present |  |  |  | the Hibernian Tales |  | like Guleesh | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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