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title: It also crept into the voyages of Sindbad in the _Arabian Nights_. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It also crept into the voyages of Sindbad in the _Arabian Nights_. Who acts: xii. 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 23

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It also crept into the voyages of Sindbad in the \_Arabian Nights\_.

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**Who acts:** xii · **What happens:** creep, voyage · **To what, where:** voyages, Sindbad

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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 (xii), 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:pg7885:39:23
# text = It also crept into the voyages of Sindbad in the _Arabian Nights_.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | xii |  |  | the voyages of Sindbad | night |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into voyage=Destination |
| 2 | **voyage** |  |  | Sindbad |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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