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title: Here it attracted the notice of Thackeray, who gives a good abstract… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here it attracted the notice of Thackeray, who gives a good abstract of it in his _Irish Sketch-Book_, ch. xvi. Who acts: story, notice. 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 9

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Here it attracted the notice of Thackeray, who gives a good abstract of it in his \_Irish Sketch-Book\_, ch. xvi.

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**Who acts:** story, notice · **What happens:** attract, give, notice, abstract · **To what, where:** notice, good abstract, Irish Sketch Book, Thackeray

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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 (story, notice), 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:pg7885:39:9
# text = Here it attracted the notice of Thackeray, who gives a good abstract of it in his _Irish Sketch-Book_, ch. xvi.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Thackeray	Thackeray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	abstract	abstract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	Sketch	Sketch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	ch	ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
27	xvi	xvi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | past | story | the notice of Thackeray and ch |  | here |  | xvi *obl* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | present | the notice of Thackeray and ch | a good abstract of story |  | Thackeray's Irish Sketch Book |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abstract=Theme |
| 3 | **notice** |  |  | Thackeray |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **abstract** |  | story |  |  |  |  |  | nom abstract «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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