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title: The incident of the three animals, old, older, and oldest, has a rem… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The incident of the three animals, old, older, and oldest, has a remarkable resemblance to the _Tettira Jataka_ (ed. Who acts: oldest. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 7

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The incident of the three animals, old, older, and oldest, has a remarkable resemblance to the \_Tettira Jataka\_ (ed.

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**Who acts:** oldest · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** remarkable resemblance

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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 (oldest), 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:pg7885:47:7
# text = The incident of the three animals, old, older, and oldest, has a remarkable resemblance to the _Tettira Jataka_ (ed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Tettira	Tettira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
23	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | oldest | a remarkable resemblance |  |  |  | to the Tettira ed | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=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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