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title: _Parallels_.--"The Lad with the Skin Coverings" is a popular Celtic… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--"The Lad with the Skin Coverings" is a popular Celtic figure, _cf. Who acts: Parallels. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 4

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\_Parallels\_.--"The Lad with the Skin Coverings" is a popular Celtic figure, \_cf.

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**Who acts:** Parallels · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** popular Celtic figure

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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:pg7885:60:4
# text = _Parallels_.--"The Lad with the Skin Coverings" is a popular Celtic figure, _cf.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Skin	Skin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Coverings	Coverings	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Parallels  the Lad with the Skin Coverings | a popular Celtic figure and cf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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