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title: The volumes of _Waifs and Strays_ contain numerous examples of these… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The volumes of _Waifs and Strays_ contain numerous examples of these "runs," which have been indexed in each volume. Who acts: volumes, numerous examples. 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 26

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The volumes of \_Waifs and Strays\_ contain numerous examples of these "runs," which have been indexed in each volume.

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**Who acts:** volumes, numerous examples · **What happens:** contain, run, index, exemplify · **To what, where:** volume, these · **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 (volumes, numerous examples), 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:pg7885:50:26
# text = The volumes of _Waifs and Strays_ contain numerous examples of these "runs," which have been indexed in each volume.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Waifs	waif	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Strays	stray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
9	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	examples	example	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	indexed	index	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | the volumes of Waifs and Strays |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** *in a quote* | present | numerous examples of these |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **index** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  | each volume |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **exemplify** |  |  | these |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition 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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