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title: _Remarks_.--This is really a moral apologue on the benefits of keepi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--This is really a moral apologue on the benefits of keeping your word. Who acts: This, benefits, your. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XII. King O'toole and His Goose., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XII. King O'toole and His Goose., sentence 2

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\_Remarks\_.--This is really a moral apologue on the benefits of keeping your word.

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**Who acts:** This, benefits, your · **What happens:** be, keep, word · **To what, where:** moral apologue, benefits, word

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XII. King O'toole and His Goose.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, benefits, your), 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:pg7885:46:2
# text = _Remarks_.--This is really a moral apologue on the benefits of keeping your word.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	apologue	apologue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	benefits	benefit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a moral apologue |  | the benefits |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | the benefits *not said here* | your word |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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