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title: Still more curiously a friend of Lady Guest's found on this a cairn… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Still more curiously a friend of Lady Guest's found on this a cairn with a stone two feet long by one foot wide in which there was an indentation 4 in. x 3 in. x 2 in. which could easily have been mistaken for a paw-print of a dog, as maybe seen from the engraving given of it (Mabinogion, ed. Who ac
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 21

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Still more curiously a friend of Lady Guest's found on this a cairn with a stone two feet long by one foot wide in which there was an indentation 4 in. x 3 in. x 2 in. which could easily have been mistaken for a paw-print of a dog, as maybe seen from the engraving given of it (Mabinogion, ed.

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**Who acts:** friend, engraving · **What happens:** find, mistake, see, give, print · **To what, where:** cairn, this, engraving, Mabinogion, dog

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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 (friend, engraving), 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:pg7885:47:21
# text = Still more curiously a friend of Lady Guest's found on this a cairn with a stone two feet long by one foot wide in which there was an indentation 4 in. x 3 in. x 2 in. which could easily have been mistaken for a paw-print of a dog, as maybe seen from the engraving given of it (Mabinogion, ed.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Guest	Guest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cairn	cairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
24	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	indentation	indentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
34	x	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
35	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
38	x	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
39	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	flat	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
44	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	mistaken	mistake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	conj	_	_
60	from	from	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	engraving	engraving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
63	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	acl	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obl	_	_
66	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	Mabinogion	Mabinogion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
69	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle | a friend of Lady Guest | a cairn |  | this |  | with a stone; by one foot; x *obl*; x *obl*; curiously, long *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cairn=Topic |
| 2 | **mistake** | could · perfect · passive | a friend of Lady Guest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a paw print of a dog; easily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | participle | a friend of Lady Guest *not said here* |  |  | the engraving |  | maybe *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **give** | participle | the engraving *not said here* | Mabinogion |  |  |  | of indentation | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **print** |  |  | a dog |  |  |  |  | nom print «communication 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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