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title: I have taken the third counsel from the Irish version, as the origin… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have taken the third counsel from the Irish version, as the original is not suited _virginibus puerisque_, though harmless enough in itself. 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 3

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I have taken the third counsel from the Irish version, as the original is not suited \_virginibus puerisque\_, though harmless enough in itself.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, not suit · **To what, where:** third counsel, Irish version, original

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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:pg7885:56:3
# text = I have taken the third counsel from the Irish version, as the original is not suited _virginibus puerisque_, though harmless enough in itself.
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	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	suited	suit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	virginibus	virginibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	puerisque	puerisque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
25	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | I | the third counsel |  | the Irish version |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme from version=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **suit** | present · passive |  | the original |  |  |  | virginibus puerisque *obl* | tree rules |

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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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