Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 15

But the Celtic peasant who speaks Gaelic takes the pleasure of telling tales somewhat sadly: so far as he has been printed and translated, I found him, to my surprise, conspicuously lacking in humour.

Who acts: Celtic peasant, pleasure, I, my · What happens: speak, take, tell, print, translate, find · To what, where: Gaelic, pleasure, tales, peasant, humour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Celtic peasant, pleasure, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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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