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title: But the adventures in these tales are not the "cure by laughing" inc… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the adventures in these tales are not the "cure by laughing" incident which forms the centre of our tale, and is Indo-European in extent (_cf. Who acts: adventures, incident, our. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., with its dependency tree and the
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 8

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But the adventures in these tales are not the "cure by laughing" incident which forms the centre of our tale, and is Indo-European in extent (\_cf.

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**Who acts:** adventures, incident, our · **What happens:** not be, laugh, form, be, tell · **To what, where:** cure, incident, centre, extent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (adventures, incident, our), 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:pg7885:60:8
# text = But the adventures in these tales are not the "cure by laughing" incident which forms the centre of our tale, and is Indo-European in extent (_cf.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	Indo	Indo	X	AFX	_	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | the adventures in this tales | the cure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** *in a quote* | gerund | the adventures in this tales *not said here* | incident |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **form** | present | incident | the centre of our tale |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centre=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the adventures in this tales *not said here* |  |  | extent and cf |  | european *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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