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title: Lady Wylde has told many folk-tales very effectively in her _Ancient… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Lady Wylde has told many folk-tales very effectively in her _Ancient Legends of Ireland_, 1887. Who acts: Lady. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 17

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Lady Wylde has told many folk-tales very effectively in her \_Ancient Legends of Ireland\_, 1887.

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**Who acts:** Lady · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** many folk tales, Ancient Legends · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady), 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:pg7885:34:17
# text = Lady Wylde has told many folk-tales very effectively in her _Ancient Legends of Ireland_, 1887.
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Wylde	Wylde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	effectively	effectively	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	1887	1887	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | Lady | many folk tales |  | Lady's Ancient Legends of Ireland |  | effectively *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

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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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