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title: I have also added a specimen of the humorous end pieces added by Gae… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have also added a specimen of the humorous end pieces added by Gaelic story-tellers; on these tags see an interesting note in MacDougall's _Tales_, note on p. 112. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 4

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I have also added a specimen of the humorous end pieces added by Gaelic story-tellers; on these tags see an interesting note in MacDougall's \_Tales\_, note on p. 112.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** add, see · **To what, where:** specimen, humorous end pieces, interesting note, tags

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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 (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:pg7885:58:4
# text = I have also added a specimen of the humorous end pieces added by Gaelic story-tellers; on these tags see an interesting note in MacDougall's _Tales_, note on p. 112.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	humorous	humorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tellers	teller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	tags	tag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	MacDougall	MacDougall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	112	112	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I | a specimen of the humorous end pieces |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent specimen=Patient |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the humorous end pieces *not said here* |  |  |  | by Gaelic story tellers | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  | a interesting note |  | this tags |  | in MacDougall's Tales | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |

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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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