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title: He is generally seen (and to this day, too) working at a single shoe… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He is generally seen (and to this day, too) working at a single shoe, _cf. Who acts: day. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Field of Boliauns., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, III. Field of Boliauns., sentence 6

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He is generally seen (and to this day, too) working at a single shoe, \_cf.

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**Who acts:** day · **What happens:** see, work · **To what, where:** Lepracaun

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Field of Boliauns.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day), 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:pg7885:37:6
# text = He is generally seen (and to this day, too) working at a single shoe, _cf.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | Lepracaun |  |  | day | generally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | this day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a single shoe and cf | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=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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