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title: No other country in Europe, except perhaps Russia, could provide a p… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No other country in Europe, except perhaps Russia, could provide a parallel to this living on of Romance among the common folk. Who acts: other country. 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 31

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No other country in Europe, except perhaps Russia, could provide a parallel to this living on of Romance among the common folk.

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**Who acts:** other country · **What happens:** provide · **To what, where:** parallel, living

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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 (other country), 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:pg7885:43:31
# text = No other country in Europe, except perhaps Russia, could provide a parallel to this living on of Romance among the common folk.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	except	except	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	Romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | could | no other country in Europe except Russia | a parallel | this living on Romance among the common folk |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent parallel=Theme to living=Recipient |

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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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