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title: This is a type of Celtic folk-tales which are European in spread, ha… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This is a type of Celtic folk-tales which are European in spread, have analogies with the East, and can only be said to be Celtic by adoption and by colouring. Who acts: This, Celtic folk tales. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden., with its dependency tree and
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 28

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This is a type of Celtic folk-tales which are European in spread, have analogies with the East, and can only be said to be Celtic by adoption and by colouring.

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**Who acts:** This, Celtic folk tales · **What happens:** be, have, say, colour · **To what, where:** type, spread, analogies · **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: who acts (This, Celtic folk tales), 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:pg7885:40:28
# text = This is a type of Celtic folk-tales which are European in spread, have analogies with the East, and can only be said to be Celtic by adoption and by colouring.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	analogies	analogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	colouring	colour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a type |  |  |  | of Celtic folk tales | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Celtic folk tales |  |  | spread |  | european *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | analogies |  |  |  | with the East | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent analogy=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by adoption; celtic *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **colour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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