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title: The most effective ghoul story in existence is Lover's "Brown Man." — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The most effective ghoul story in existence is Lover's "Brown Man." Who acts: effective ghoul story. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Andrew Coffey., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIII. Andrew Coffey., sentence 6

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The most effective ghoul story in existence is Lover's "Brown Man."

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**Who acts:** effective ghoul story · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Brown Man

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Andrew Coffey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (effective ghoul story), 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:pg7885:57:6
# text = The most effective ghoul story in existence is Lover's "Brown Man."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	Lover	Lover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the effective ghoul story in existence | Lover's Brown Man |  |  |  |  | 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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