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title: The "outcast child" is a frequent episode in folk and hero-tales: an… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The "outcast child" is a frequent episode in folk and hero-tales: an instance occurs in my _English Fairy Tales_, No. xxxv., and Prof. Who acts: outcast child, instance. 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 8

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The "outcast child" is a frequent episode in folk and hero-tales: an instance occurs in my \_English Fairy Tales\_, No. xxxv., and Prof.

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**Who acts:** outcast child, instance · **What happens:** be, occur · **To what, where:** frequent episode, folk, Fairy Tales

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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 (outcast child, instance), 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:pg7885:43:8
# text = The "outcast child" is a frequent episode in folk and hero-tales: an instance occurs in my _English Fairy Tales_, No. xxxv., and Prof.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	outcast	outcast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	episode	episode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	xxxv	xxxv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	Prof	Prof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the outcast child | a frequent episode |  | folk and hero tales |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **occur** | present | a instance | my Fairy Tales |  |  |  | Prof *obl* | tree rules |

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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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