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title: One-eyed giants are frequent in Celtic folk-tales (_e.g._ in _The Pu… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One-eyed giants are frequent in Celtic folk-tales (_e.g._ in _The Pursuit of Diarmaid_ and in the _Mabinogi_ of Owen). Who acts: eyed giants. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 14

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One-eyed giants are frequent in Celtic folk-tales (\_e.g.\_ in \_The Pursuit of Diarmaid\_ and in the \_Mabinogi\_ of Owen).

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**Who acts:** eyed giants · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Celtic folk tales

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyed giants), 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:pg7885:39:14
# text = One-eyed giants are frequent in Celtic folk-tales (_e.g._ in _The Pursuit of Diarmaid_ and in the _Mabinogi_ of Owen).
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Pursuit	Pursuit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Diarmaid	Diarmaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Mabinogi	Mabinogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | eyed giants |  |  | Celtic folk tales |  | in the Pursuit of Diarmaid and the Mabinogi; frequent *property* | tree rules |

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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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