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title: The fable indeed, from this point of view, seems greatly to have att… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The fable indeed, from this point of view, seems greatly to have attracted the Welsh mind, perhaps as of especial value to a proverbially impetuous temperament. Who acts: fable. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 45

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The fable indeed, from this point of view, seems greatly to have attracted the Welsh mind, perhaps as of especial value to a proverbially impetuous temperament.

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**Who acts:** fable · **What happens:** seem, attract, point · **To what, where:** Welsh mind, view

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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 (fable), 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:pg7885:55:45
# text = The fable indeed, from this point of view, seems greatly to have attracted the Welsh mind, perhaps as of especial value to a proverbially impetuous temperament.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	especial	especial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	proverbially	proverbially	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	temperament	temperament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | the fable |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attract** | to-infinitive · perfect | the fable *not said here* | the Welsh mind |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 3 | **point** |  |  | view |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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