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title: Dr. Hyde has an Irish version of Campbell's tale written down in 176… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dr. Hyde has an Irish version of Campbell's tale written down in 1762, from which he gives the incident of the air-ladder (which I have had to euphemise in my version) in his _Beside the Fireside_, p. 191, and other passages in his Preface. Who acts: Hyde, I, air ladder, Campbell. A sentence of «Cel
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 5

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Dr. Hyde has an Irish version of Campbell's tale written down in 1762, from which he gives the incident of the air-ladder (which I have had to euphemise in my version) in his \_Beside the Fireside\_, p. 191, and other passages in his Preface.

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**Who acts:** Hyde, I, air ladder, Campbell · **What happens:** have, write down, give, euphemise, tell, preface · **To what, where:** Irish version, tale, 1762, incident, air ladder, 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 (Hyde, I, air ladder, Campbell), 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:pg7885:50:5
# text = Dr. Hyde has an Irish version of Campbell's tale written down in 1762, from which he gives the incident of the air-ladder (which I have had to euphemise in my version) in his _Beside the Fireside_, p. 191, and other passages in his Preface.
1	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Hyde	Hyde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1762	1762	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	euphemise	euphemise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Fireside	Fireside	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
47	191	191	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	Preface	preface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Hyde  Dr. | a Irish version of Campbell's tale |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient |
| 2 | **write down** | participle |  | Campbell's tale *not said here* |  | 1762 |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1762=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | present | Hyde | the incident of the air ladder |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present · perfect | I | the air ladder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **euphemise** | to-infinitive | the air ladder *not said here* |  |  | my version |  | in Hyde's Fireside and p. and other passages in Hyde's Preface | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** |  | Campbell |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **preface** |  | Hyde |  |  |  |  |  | nom preface «communication transitive»: poss=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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