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title: I have used the English version contained in _Blackwood's Magazine_… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have used the English version contained in _Blackwood's Magazine_ as long ago as May 1818. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Story of Ivan., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXII. Story of Ivan., sentence 2

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I have used the English version contained in \_Blackwood's Magazine\_ as long ago as May 1818.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** use, contain · **To what, where:** English version, Magazine

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Story of Ivan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7885:56:2
# text = I have used the English version contained in _Blackwood's Magazine_ as long ago as May 1818.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Blackwood	Blackwood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Magazine	Magazine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	1818	1818	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · perfect | I | the English version |  |  | may | ago *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | the English version *not said here* |  | Blackwood's Magazine |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in magazine=Location |

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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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