Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 22

But there can be little doubt of Conn's existence as a powerful ruler in Ireland in the second century.

Who acts: little doubt, Conn · What happens: be, doubt, exist · To what, where: existence

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

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 be	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 doubt	amod
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 be	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 existence	case
8	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 existence	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Conn	case
10	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doubt	nmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 ruler	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ruler	det
13	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ruler	amod
14	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 be	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Ireland	case
16	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 ruler	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 century	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 century	det
19	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 century	amod
20	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ruler	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	can	can	little doubt of Conn's existence		there	as a powerful ruler in Ireland in the second century	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	doubt			Conn's existence			nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient
3	exist		Conn				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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