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title: _Parallels_.--Miss Dempster gives the same story in her Sutherland C… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Miss Dempster gives the same story in her Sutherland Collection, No. vii. Who acts: Miss Dempster. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 3

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\_Parallels\_.--Miss Dempster gives the same story in her Sutherland Collection, No. vii.

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**Who acts:** Miss Dempster · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** same story, Sutherland Collection

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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 (Miss Dempster), 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:pg7885:42:3
# text = _Parallels_.--Miss Dempster gives the same story in her Sutherland Collection, No. vii.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Dempster	dempster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Sutherland	Sutherland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Collection	Collection	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Miss Dempster | the same story and No. vii |  | Dempster's Sutherland Collection |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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