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title: (referred to by Campbell in his Gaelic list, at end of vol. iv.); Mr… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: (referred to by Campbell in his Gaelic list, at end of vol. iv.); Mrs. John Faed, I am informed by a friend, knows the Gaelic version, as told by her nurse in her youth. Who acts: friend, Campbell. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., with its dependency 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VIII. the Sprightly Tailor., sentence 4

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(referred to by Campbell in his Gaelic list, at end of vol. iv.); Mrs. John Faed, I am informed by a friend, knows the Gaelic version, as told by her nurse in her youth.

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**Who acts:** friend, Campbell · **What happens:** refer, inform, know, tell, list · **To what, where:** Gaelic list, I, Gaelic version, youth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (friend, Campbell), 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:pg7885:42:4
# text = (referred to by Campbell in his Gaelic list, at end of vol. iv.); Mrs. John Faed, I am informed by a friend, knows the Gaelic version, as told by her nurse in her youth.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	vol.	vol.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	iv	iv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl:agent	_	_
21	Faed	Faed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | participle | a friend *not said here* |  |  | Campbell's Gaelic list | at end of vol. iv | by Campbell | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | present · passive | a friend | I |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **know** | present |  | the Gaelic version |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer version=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  | friend's youth |  | by friend's nurse | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **list** |  | Campbell |  |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: 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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