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title: _ Campbell, _The Fians_, Introd. xix.) thinks that this does not pre… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Campbell, _The Fians_, Introd. xix.) thinks that this does not prevent a still earlier version having existed. Who acts: _, this, earlier version. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 19

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\_ Campbell, \_The Fians\_, Introd. xix.) thinks that this does not prevent a still earlier version having existed.

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**Who acts:** \_, this, earlier version · **What happens:** think, not prevent, have, exist · **To what, where:** earlier version · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, this, earlier version), 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:pg7885:50:19
# text = _ Campbell, _The Fians_, Introd. xix.) thinks that this does not prevent a still earlier version having existed.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fians	Fian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Introd	Introd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	xix	xix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
14	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **prevent** | present · do-support | this | a earlier version |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer version=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | a earlier version *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **exist** | participle | a earlier version *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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