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description: This is ingenious, but fails to give any reasonable account of the diffusion of the jingle in countries which have had no historic connection with classical Greece. Who acts: This, countries. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Munachar and Manachar., with its dependency tree and
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, X. Munachar and Manachar., sentence 15

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This is ingenious, but fails to give any reasonable account of the diffusion of the jingle in countries which have had no historic connection with classical Greece.

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**Who acts:** This, countries · **What happens:** be, fail, not give, have, account, diffuse · **To what, where:** reasonable account, historic connection, diffusion, jingle

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Munachar and Manachar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, countries), 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:pg7885:44:15
# text = This is ingenious, but fails to give any reasonable account of the diffusion of the jingle in countries which have had no historic connection with classical Greece.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fails	fail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	jingle	jingle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
24	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	classical	classical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | ingenious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fail** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive |  | any reasonable account of the diffusion of the jingle in countries |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present · perfect | countries | no historic connection |  |  |  | with classical Greece | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient |
| 5 | **account** |  |  | the diffusion of the jingle in countries |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **diffuse** |  |  | the jingle in countries |  |  |  |  | nom diffusion «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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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