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title: Fairy Tales_, No. vii.), no less than sixteen variants found among t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairy Tales_, No. vii.), no less than sixteen variants found among the Celts. Who acts: sixteen variants. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 10

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Fairy Tales\_, No. vii.), no less than sixteen variants found among the Celts.

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**Who acts:** sixteen variants · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** Celts

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sixteen variants), 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:pg7885:58:10
# text = Fairy Tales_, No. vii.), no less than sixteen variants found among the Celts.
1	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	13	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle | sixteen variants *not said here* | the Celts |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celt=Topic |

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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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