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title: I content myself with pointing out the fact that in these latter day… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I content myself with pointing out the fact that in these latter days of a seemingly prosaic century in these British Isles there has been collected from the lips of the folk a heroic story like this of "Deirdre," full of romantic incidents, told with tender feeling and considerable literary skill. 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 30

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I content myself with pointing out the fact that in these latter days of a seemingly prosaic century in these British Isles there has been collected from the lips of the folk a heroic story like this of "Deirdre," full of romantic incidents, told with tender feeling and considerable literary skill.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** content, point out, collect, tell · **To what, where:** myself, fact, prosaic century, British Isles, romantic incidents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I), 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:pg7885:43:30
# text = I content myself with pointing out the fact that in these latter days of a seemingly prosaic century in these British Isles there has been collected from the lips of the folk a heroic story like this of "Deirdre," full of romantic incidents, told with tender feeling and considerable literary skill.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	content	content	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	advcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	seemingly	seemingly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Isles	Isle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
43	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
54	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **content** | present | I | myself |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **point out** | gerund | I *not said here* | the fact |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient |
| 3 | **collect** | present · perfect · passive |  | a prosaic century *not said here* |  | this British Isles; there |  | from the lips of the folk | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: from lip=Source |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | romantic incidents *not said here* |  |  |  | with tender feeling and considerable literary skill | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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