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title: _--_Notes and Queries_ for December 21, 1861; to which it was commun… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--_Notes and Queries_ for December 21, 1861; to which it was communicated by "Cuthbert Bede," the author of _Verdant Green_, who collected it in Cantyre. Who acts: Cuthbert, Notes. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 2

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\_--\_Notes and Queries\_ for December 21, 1861; to which it was communicated by "Cuthbert Bede," the author of \_Verdant Green\_, who collected it in Cantyre.

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**Who acts:** Cuthbert, Notes · **What happens:** communicate, collect · **To what, where:** Notes, Source, Cantyre

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuthbert, Notes), 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:pg7885:42:2
# text = _--_Notes and Queries_ for December 21, 1861; to which it was communicated by "Cuthbert Bede," the author of _Verdant Green_, who collected it in Cantyre.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Queries	query	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	1861	1861	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	communicated	communicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Cuthbert	Cuthbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	Bede	Bede	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Verdant	verdant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Green	Green	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Cantyre	Cantyre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **communicate** | past · passive | Cuthbert | Notes and Queries |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **collect** | past | Notes and Queries | Source |  | Cantyre |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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