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title: Unfortunately it is not complete, and the Sea-Maiden incident is onl… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Unfortunately it is not complete, and the Sea-Maiden incident is only to be found in a British Museum MS. of about 1300. Who acts: MS.. 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 24

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Unfortunately it is not complete, and the Sea-Maiden incident is only to be found in a British Museum MS. of about 1300.

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**Who acts:** MS. · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** Sea Maiden incident, Museum MS.

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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 (MS.), 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:pg7885:51:24
# text = Unfortunately it is not complete, and the Sea-Maiden incident is only to be found in a British Museum MS. of about 1300.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	21	compound	_	_
21	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	MS.	MS.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	1300	1300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | MS. |  |  |  |  | complete, unfortunately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present · passive |  | the Sea Maiden incident |  | a Museum MS. of 1300 |  | find *property* | 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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