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title: I may add to this that in Mr. Curtin's _Myths_, 330, the threefold t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I may add to this that in Mr. Curtin's _Myths_, 330, the threefold trial of the sword is told of Cuchulain. Who acts: I, _ Myths. 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 30

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I may add to this that in Mr. Curtin's \_Myths\_, 330, the threefold trial of the sword is told of Cuchulain.

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**Who acts:** I, \_ Myths · **What happens:** add, tell, try · **To what, where:** that, threefold trial, sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, \_ Myths), 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:pg7885:51:30
# text = I may add to this that in Mr. Curtin's _Myths_, 330, the threefold trial of the sword is told of Cuchulain.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Curtin	Curtin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Myths	Myths	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	330	330	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	threefold	threefold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Cuchulain	Cuchulain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | may | I | that |  |  |  | to this | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient to this=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Curtin  Mr.'s \_ Myths *not said here* | the threefold trial of the sword |  |  |  | of Cuchulain | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **try** |  |  | the sword |  |  |  |  | nom trial «act 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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