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title: _ i. 316), and Mr. Lang's Morayshire Tale, "Nicht Nought Nothing" (s… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ i. 316), and Mr. Lang's Morayshire Tale, "Nicht Nought Nothing" (see _Eng. 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 9

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\_ i. 316), and Mr. Lang's Morayshire Tale, "Nicht Nought Nothing" (see \_Eng.

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**What happens:** see

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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:pg7885:58:9
# text = _ i. 316), and Mr. Lang's Morayshire Tale, "Nicht Nought Nothing" (see _Eng.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
2	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	_
3	316	316	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Morayshire	Morayshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Nicht	Nicht	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	16	compound	_	_
16	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Eng	Eng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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