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title: This apologue got to England at the end of the twelfth century as th… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This apologue got to England at the end of the twelfth century as the sixty-ninth fable, "Wolf, Fox, and Dove," of a rhymed prose collection of "Fox Fables" (_Mishle Shu'alim_), of an Oxford Jew, Berachyah Nakdan, known in the Records as "Benedict le Puncteur" (see my _Fables Of Aesop_, i. p. 170). 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 11

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This apologue got to England at the end of the twelfth century as the sixty-ninth fable, "Wolf, Fox, and Dove," of a rhymed prose collection of "Fox Fables" (\_Mishle Shu'alim\_), of an Oxford Jew, Berachyah Nakdan, known in the Records as "Benedict le Puncteur" (see my \_Fables Of Aesop\_, i. p. 170).

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**Who acts:** apologue · **What happens:** get, rhyme, know, see · **To what, where:** Dove, England, end, Records, Fables

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apologue), 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:pg7885:47:11
# text = This apologue got to England at the end of the twelfth century as the sixty-ninth fable, "Wolf, Fox, and Dove," of a rhymed prose collection of "Fox Fables" (_Mishle Shu'alim_), of an Oxford Jew, Berachyah Nakdan, known in the Records as "Benedict le Puncteur" (see my _Fables Of Aesop_, i. p. 170).
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	apologue	apologue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Dove	Dove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	rhymed	rhyme	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
32	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Mishle	Mishle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Shu'alim	Shu'alim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	Berachyah	Berachyah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
52	Nakdan	Nakdan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	parataxis	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	_
58	as	as	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
59	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	Benedict	Benedict	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
61	le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	Puncteur	Puncteur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	62	punct	_	_
64	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	62	appos	_	_
66	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
67	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obj	_	_
69	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
73	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	74	flat:foreign	_	_
74	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
75	170	170	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	74	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | this apologue | Dove | England |  | at the end of the twelfth century | as the ninth fable and Fox; of a rhymed prose collection of Fox Fables | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to england=Initial\_Location of collection=Destination |
| 2 | **rhyme** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  | the Records |  | as Benedict le Puncteur | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as puncteur=Attribute |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  | my Fables of Aesop |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fable=Stimulus |

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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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