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title: This has the incident of the "accidental matricide," on which see Pr… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This has the incident of the "accidental matricide," on which see Prof. Who acts: This. 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 6

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This has the incident of the "accidental matricide," on which see Prof.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** have, see · **To what, where:** incident, Prof

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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), 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:pg7885:40:6
# text = This has the incident of the "accidental matricide," on which see Prof.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	accidental	accidental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	matricide	matricide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
12	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	Prof	Prof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | This | the incident of the accidental matricide |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | present |  | Prof |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prof=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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