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title: _ I have shortened the earlier part of the tale, and introduced into… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ I have shortened the earlier part of the tale, and introduced into the latter a few touches from Campbell's story of "Fionn's Enchantment," in _Revue Celtique_, t. i., 193 _seq. Who acts: I, Fionn. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire., with it
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire., sentence 3

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\_ I have shortened the earlier part of the tale, and introduced into the latter a few touches from Campbell's story of "Fionn's Enchantment," in \_Revue Celtique\_, t. i., 193 \_seq.

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**Who acts:** I, Fionn · **What happens:** shorten, introduce, enchant · **To what, where:** earlier part, \_ Revue

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Fionn), 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:pg7885:49:3
# text = _ I have shortened the earlier part of the tale, and introduced into the latter a few touches from Campbell's story of "Fionn's Enchantment," in _Revue Celtique_, t. i., 193 _seq.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	shortened	shorten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	Enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Revue	Revue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
34	Celtique	Celtique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	t.	t.	X	FW	_	38	compound	_	_
38	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	193	193	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	appos	_	_
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	seq	seq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shorten** | present · perfect | I | the earlier part of the tale |  | \_ Revue |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 2 | **introduce** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | latter *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **enchant** *in a quote* |  | Fionn |  |  |  |  |  | nom enchantment «feeling 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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