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title: The passages in verse from pp 137, 139, and the description of the B… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The passages in verse from pp 137, 139, and the description of the Beggarman, pp. 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 22

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The passages in verse from pp 137, 139, and the description of the Beggarman, pp.

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**What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** Beggarman

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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: 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:pg7885:50:22
# text = The passages in verse from pp 137, 139, and the description of the Beggarman, pp.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	137	137	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	139	139	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Beggarman	Beggarman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** |  |  | the Beggarman |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication 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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