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title: The third of Mr. Britten's Irish folk-tales in the _Folk-Lore Journa… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The third of Mr. Britten's Irish folk-tales in the _Folk-Lore Journal_ is a Sea-Maiden story. Who acts: Folk. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 11

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The third of Mr. Britten's Irish folk-tales in the \_Folk-Lore Journal\_ is a Sea-Maiden story.

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**Who acts:** Folk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Maiden story

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Folk), 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:pg7885:51:11
# text = The third of Mr. Britten's Irish folk-tales in the _Folk-Lore Journal_ is a Sea-Maiden story.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Britten	Britten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	Journal	Journal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Folk |  |  | the Maiden story |  |  | tree rules |

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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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