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title: On the other hand, the Swan-Maiden type of story is widespread throu… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the other hand, the Swan-Maiden type of story is widespread through the Old World. Who acts: Old World. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 19

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On the other hand, the Swan-Maiden type of story is widespread through the Old World.

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**Who acts:** Old World · **What happens:** widesprea, type · **To what, where:** Swan Maiden type, other hand, story

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old World), 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:pg7885:41:19
# text = On the other hand, the Swan-Maiden type of story is widespread through the Old World.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Swan	Swan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	widespread	widesprea	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **widesprea** | present · passive | the Old World | the Swan Maiden type of story |  | the other hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **type** |  |  | story |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition 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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