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title: 20; or Blade, 149; Stokes' _Indian Fairy Tales_, 243, 276; and Messrs. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 20; or Blade, 149; Stokes' _Indian Fairy Tales_, 243, 276; and Messrs. Who acts: Stokes. 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 23

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20; or Blade, 149; Stokes' \_Indian Fairy Tales\_, 243, 276; and Messrs.

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**Who acts:** Stokes · **What happens:** tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Stokes), 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:pg7885:41:23
# text = 20; or Blade, 149; Stokes' _Indian Fairy Tales_, 243, 276; and Messrs.
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Blade	Blade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	149	149	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	Stokes	stoke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	243	243	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	276	276	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Messrs	Messrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** |  | Stokes |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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