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title: 374; and Mr. Lang, in his _Custom and Myth_ ("A far travelled Tale")… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 374; and Mr. Lang, in his _Custom and Myth_ ("A far travelled Tale"), has given a number of parallels from savage sources. Who acts: Lang. 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 15

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374; and Mr. Lang, in his \_Custom and Myth\_ ("A far travelled Tale"), has given a number of parallels from savage sources.

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**Who acts:** Lang · **What happens:** travel, give · **To what, where:** Tale, Lang

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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 (Lang), 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:pg7885:58:15
# text = 374; and Mr. Lang, in his _Custom and Myth_ ("A far travelled Tale"), has given a number of parallels from savage sources.
1	374	374	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Myth	Myth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
19	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	savage	savage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** *in a quote* | past | Lang  Mr. and Myth *not said here* | Tale |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tale=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect · passive |  | Lang  Mr. and Myth |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient number=Theme |

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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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