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title: I should have thought that the existence of so distinctly Eastern a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I should have thought that the existence of so distinctly Eastern a trick in the tale, and the fact that it is a framework story (another Eastern characteristic), would imply that it is a rather late importation, with local allusions superadded (_cf. Who acts: I, fact, local allusions, trick. A sent
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 20

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I should have thought that the existence of so distinctly Eastern a trick in the tale, and the fact that it is a framework story (another Eastern characteristic), would imply that it is a rather late importation, with local allusions superadded (\_cf.

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**Who acts:** I, fact, local allusions, trick · **What happens:** think, be, imply, superadd, exist · **To what, where:** existence, framework story, late importation, cf · **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 (I, fact, local allusions, trick), 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:pg7885:50:20
# text = I should have thought that the existence of so distinctly Eastern a trick in the tale, and the fact that it is a framework story (another Eastern characteristic), would imply that it is a rather late importation, with local allusions superadded (_cf.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	Eastern	eastern	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	imply	imply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	importation	importation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	allusions	allusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
46	superadded	superadd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	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 | **think** *speech: other* | should · perfect | I | the existence of a trick in the tale |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | fact | a framework story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **imply** | would | the fact |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | present | fact | a late importation and local allusions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **superadd** | participle | local allusions *not said here* | cf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **exist** |  | a trick in the tale |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=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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