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title: _Remarks_.--It is unlikely, I should say impossible, that this tale,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--It is unlikely, I should say impossible, that this tale, with the incident of the dormant heroine, should have arisen independently in the Highlands; it is most likely an importation from abroad. Who acts: Remarks, I, Highlands, version. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacob
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree., sentence 10

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\_Remarks\_.--It is unlikely, I should say impossible, that this tale, with the incident of the dormant heroine, should have arisen independently in the Highlands; it is most likely an importation from abroad.

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**Who acts:** Remarks, I, Highlands, version · **What happens:** be, say, arise · **To what, where:** impossible, tale, importation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remarks, I, Highlands, version), 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:pg7885:45:10
# text = _Remarks_.--It is unlikely, I should say impossible, that this tale, with the incident of the dormant heroine, should have arisen independently in the Highlands; it is most likely an importation from abroad.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	expl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
12	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	dormant	dormant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	arisen	arise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
29	independently	independently	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Highlands	Highland	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	importation	importation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Remarks |  |  |  |  | unlikely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | I | impossible |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent impossible=Topic |
| 3 | **arise** | should · perfect · passive | the Highlands | this tale |  |  |  | independently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | version | a importation |  |  |  | likely *property* | 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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