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title: The trees growing from the lovers' graves occurs in the English ball… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The trees growing from the lovers' graves occurs in the English ballad of _Lord Lovel_ and has been studied in _Melusine_. Who acts: trees. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 15

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The trees growing from the lovers' graves occurs in the English ballad of \_Lord Lovel\_ and has been studied in \_Melusine\_.

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**Who acts:** trees · **What happens:** grow, occur, study · **To what, where:** English ballad, Melusine

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees), 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:pg7885:43:15
# text = The trees growing from the lovers' graves occurs in the English ballad of _Lord Lovel_ and has been studied in _Melusine_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	Lovel	Lovel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Melusine	Melusine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund | the trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the lovers's graves | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from grave=Patient |
| 2 | **occur** | present | the trees |  |  | the English ballad of Lord |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ballad=Location |
| 3 | **study** | present · perfect · passive | the trees *not said here* |  |  | Melusine |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V» |

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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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