--- title: Hunt's _Drolls from the West of England_ has nothing distinctively C… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Hunt's _Drolls from the West of England_ has nothing distinctively Celtic, and it is only by a chance Lhuyd chose a folk-tale as his specimen of Cornish in his _Archaeologia Britannica_, 1709 (see _Tale of Ivan_). Who acts: _, Hunt, Lhuyd. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, Hunt, Lhuyd), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:34:50 # text = Hunt's _Drolls from the West of England_ has nothing distinctively Celtic, and it is only by a chance Lhuyd chose a folk-tale as his specimen of Cornish in his _Archaeologia Britannica_, 1709 (see _Tale of Ivan_). 1 Hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 _ _ NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Drolls droll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 _ _ PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obj _ _ 13 distinctively distinctively ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 Celtic celtic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 23 Lhuyd Lhuyd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 specimen specimen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Cornish Cornish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Archaeologia Archaeologia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 38 Britannica Britannica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 39 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 1709 1709 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 flat _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 37 appos _ _ 44 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 Tale Tale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **droll** | present | Hunt's \_ | | | the West of England | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | \_ | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | Hunt | | | | | by a chance | tree rules | | 4 | **choose** | past | Lhuyd | a folk tale | | \_'s Archaeologia | | as \_'s specimen of Cornish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | | 5 | **see** | infinitive | | Tale of Ivan | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/51/) - ↑ back to [Notes and References](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/)