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title: _--Lover has a tale, "Little Fairly," obviously derived from this fo… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Lover has a tale, "Little Fairly," obviously derived from this folk-tale; and there is another very similar, "Darby Darly." Who acts: _, another. 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 4

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\_--Lover has a tale, "Little Fairly," obviously derived from this folk-tale; and there is another very similar, "Darby Darly."

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**Who acts:** \_, another · **What happens:** have, derive, be · **To what, where:** tale, Little, folk tale

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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 (\_, another), 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:pg7885:40:4
# text = _--Lover has a tale, "Little Fairly," obviously derived from this folk-tale; and there is another very similar, "Darby Darly."
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Lover	Lover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
10	Fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
17	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Darby	Darby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	Darly	Darly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | \_ | a tale |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient |
| 2 | **derive** | participle | \_ *not said here* | Little |  | this folk tale |  | fairly, obviously *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from tale=Material |
| 3 | **be** | present | another |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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