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title: But what is impossible, in my opinion, is that such an event should… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But what is impossible, in my opinion, is that such an event should have independently been used in different places as the typical instance of, and warning against, rash action. Who acts: my. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the p
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 42

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But what is impossible, in my opinion, is that such an event should have independently been used in different places as the typical instance of, and warning against, rash action.

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** be, use, opine, instance · **To what, where:** event, different places, warning

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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:pg7885:55:42
# text = But what is impossible, in my opinion, is that such an event should have independently been used in different places as the typical instance of, and warning against, rash action.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
17	independently	independently	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	typical	typical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	against	against	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | should · perfect · passive |  | such event |  | different places as the typical instance of warning against rash action |  | independently *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **opine** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **instance** |  |  | warning against rash action |  |  |  |  | nom instance «event 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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