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title: Wales_, p. 125, the only authority for the cairn now shown is that o… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wales_, p. 125, the only authority for the cairn now shown is that of the landlord of the Goat Inn, "who felt compelled by the cravings of tourists to invent a grave." Who acts: Wales. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 91

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Wales\_, p. 125, the only authority for the cairn now shown is that of the landlord of the Goat Inn, "who felt compelled by the cravings of tourists to invent a grave."

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**Who acts:** Wales · **What happens:** show, be, compel, invent, crave · **To what, where:** cairn, grave, tourists

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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 (Wales), 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:pg7885:55:91
# text = Wales_, p. 125, the only authority for the cairn now shown is that of the landlord of the Goat Inn, "who felt compelled by the cravings of tourists to invent a grave."
1	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	125	125	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cairn	cairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Inn	Inn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cravings	craving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | participle |  | the cairn *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Wales and p. |  |  |  |  | of the landlord of the Goat Inn; feel *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **compel** *in a quote* | participle | Wales and p. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the cravings of tourists | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **invent** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Wales and p. *not said here* | a grave |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Result |
| 5 | **crave** *in a quote* |  |  | tourists |  |  |  |  | nom craving «feeling 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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