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title: At the time when the Tuatha De Dannan held the sovereignty of Irelan… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the time when the Tuatha De Dannan held the sovereignty of Ireland, there reigned in Leinster a king, who was remarkably fond of hearing stories. Who acts: Tuatha Dannan, king. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 1

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At the time when the Tuatha De Dannan held the sovereignty of Ireland, there reigned in Leinster a king, who was remarkably fond of hearing stories.

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**Who acts:** Tuatha Dannan, king · **What happens:** hold, reign, be · **To what, where:** sovereignty, king, Leinster

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuatha Dannan, king), 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:pg7885:20:1
# text = At the time when the Tuatha De Dannan held the sovereignty of Ireland, there reigned in Leinster a king, who was remarkably fond of hearing stories.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	Dannan	Dannan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the Tuatha Dannan | the sovereignty of Ireland |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Theme |
| 2 | **reign** | participle | the Tuatha Dannan *not said here* | a king |  | Leinster; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | a king |  |  |  |  | of hearing stories; fond, remarkably *property* | 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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