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title: They form a distinct section of the tales told by the Celts, and mus… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They form a distinct section of the tales told by the Celts, and must be represented in any characteristic selection. Who acts: analogies. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 29

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They form a distinct section of the tales told by the Celts, and must be represented in any characteristic selection.

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**Who acts:** analogies · **What happens:** form, tell, represent, section · **To what, where:** distinct section, tales, Celts · **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 (analogies), 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:pg7885:40:29
# text = They form a distinct section of the tales told by the Celts, and must be represented in any characteristic selection.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | analogies *= analogy* | a distinct section of the tales |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location section=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the tales *not said here* | the Celts |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent celt=Recipient |
| 3 | **represent** | must · passive |  |  |  |  |  | in any characteristic selection | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: in selection=Attribute |
| 4 | **section** |  |  | the tales |  |  |  |  | nom section «communication 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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