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title: The air is from R. Roberts' "Collection of Welsh Airs," but what con… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The air is from R. Roberts' "Collection of Welsh Airs," but what connection it has with the legend I have been unable to ascertain. Who acts: air, connection, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 87

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The air is from R. Roberts' "Collection of Welsh Airs," but what connection it has with the legend I have been unable to ascertain.

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**Who acts:** air, connection, I · **What happens:** be, have, ascertain · **To what, where:** Collection, connection, legend

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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 (air, connection, I), 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:pg7885:55:87
# text = The air is from R. Roberts' "Collection of Welsh Airs," but what connection it has with the legend I have been unable to ascertain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	R.	R.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Roberts	Roberts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Airs	Air	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nmod	_	_
17	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
26	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the air |  |  | R. Roberts's Collection |  | of Welsh Airs  R. Roberts's Collection | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | connection | connection *not said here* |  |  |  | with the legend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | I | the legend *not said here* |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ascertain** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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