Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 31
The tale of Connla is thus the earliest fairy tale of modern Europe.
Who acts: tale, Connla · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: earliest fairy tale · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tale, Connla), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:2292): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Connla | case |
| 4 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tale | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tale | cop |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 tale | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tale | det |
| 8 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 tale | amod |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | compound |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Europe | case |
| 12 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Europe | amod |
| 13 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the tale of Connla | the earliest fairy tale | of modern Europe; thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell | Connla | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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