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title: Tales, W. Highlands_, No. ii.), with touches from the seventh varian… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tales, W. Highlands_, No. ii.), with touches from the seventh variant and others, including the casket and key finish, from Curtin's "Son of the King of Erin" (_Myths, &c., 32 seq. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 2

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Tales, W. Highlands\_, No. ii.), with touches from the seventh variant and others, including the casket and key finish, from Curtin's "Son of the King of Erin" (\_Myths, &c., 32 seq.

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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: 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:pg7885:58:2
# text = Tales, W. Highlands_, No. ii.), with touches from the seventh variant and others, including the casket and key finish, from Curtin's "Son of the King of Erin" (_Myths, &c., 32 seq.
1	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	Highlands	Highlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	including	including	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	finish	finish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	Curtin	Curtin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Myths	Myths	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	seq	seq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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