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title: 315; W. Sikes, _British Goblins_, p. 40. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 315; W. Sikes, _British Goblins_, p. 40. 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 9

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315; W. Sikes, \_British Goblins\_, p. 40.

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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: 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:pg7885:41:9
# text = 315; W. Sikes, _British Goblins_, p. 40.
1	315	315	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Sikes	sike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	_	_	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
12	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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