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title: It is indeed impossible to think these are disconnected, and for dro… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is indeed impossible to think these are disconnected, and for drolls of this kind a good case has been made out for the borrowing hypotheses by M. Cosquin and Mr. Clouston. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 26

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It is indeed impossible to think these are disconnected, and for drolls of this kind a good case has been made out for the borrowing hypotheses by M. Cosquin and Mr. Clouston.

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**What happens:** be, think, disconnect, make out · **To what, where:** these, good case · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden.. 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:pg7885:40:26
# text = It is indeed impossible to think these are disconnected, and for drolls of this kind a good case has been made out for the borrowing hypotheses by M. Cosquin and Mr. Clouston.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	disconnected	disconnect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	drolls	droll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	borrowing	borrowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	hypotheses	hypothesis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:desc	_	_
33	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | impossible, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **disconnect** | present · passive |  | these |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **make out** | present · perfect · passive |  | a good case |  |  |  | for drolls of this kind; for the borrowing hypotheses by M. and Clouston  Mr. | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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