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title: _Parallels_.--The early part is similar to the beginning of "The Sea… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--The early part is similar to the beginning of "The Sea-Maiden" (No. xvii., which see). Who acts: early part, xvii. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire., sentence 5

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\_Parallels\_.--The early part is similar to the beginning of "The Sea-Maiden" (No. xvii., which see).

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**Who acts:** early part, xvii · **What happens:** be, see, begin · **To what, where:** Sea Maiden

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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 (early part, xvii), 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:pg7885:49:5
# text = _Parallels_.--The early part is similar to the beginning of "The Sea-Maiden" (No. xvii., which see).
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	No.	no.	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	xvii	xvii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the early part |  |  |  | to the beginning of the Sea Maiden | similar *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | no. xvii |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | the Sea Maiden |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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