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title: _, 222, "How Fion selected a Wife"). — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _, 222, "How Fion selected a Wife"). Who acts: Fion. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 16

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\_, 222, "How Fion selected a Wife").

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**Who acts:** Fion · **What happens:** select · **To what, where:** Wife

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fion), 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:pg7885:38:16
# text = _, 222, "How Fion selected a Wife").
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	222	222	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	Fion	Fion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** *in a quote* | past | Fion | a Wife |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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