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title: And as told in the Highlands it bears comparison even with the Homer… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And as told in the Highlands it bears comparison even with the Homeric version. 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 24

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And as told in the Highlands it bears comparison even with the Homeric version.

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**What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** Highlands bears comparison · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg7885:39:24
# text = And as told in the Highlands it bears comparison even with the Homeric version.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Highlands	Highland	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	compound	_	_
9	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Homeric	Homeric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | Highlands bears comparison |  |  |  | with the Homeric version | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent comparison=Recipient |

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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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