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title: The collection of Celtic folk-tales began in IRELAND as early as 182… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The collection of Celtic folk-tales began in IRELAND as early as 1825, with T. Crofton Croker's _Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland_. Who acts: collection. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 8

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The collection of Celtic folk-tales began in IRELAND as early as 1825, with T. Crofton Croker's \_Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland\_.

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**Who acts:** collection · **What happens:** begin · **To what, where:** IRELAND

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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 (collection), 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:pg7885:34:8
# text = The collection of Celtic folk-tales began in IRELAND as early as 1825, with T. Crofton Croker's _Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	IRELAND	IRELAND	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1825	1825	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
17	T.	T.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Crofton	Crofton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Croker	Croker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the collection of Celtic folk tales |  |  | IRELAND |  | as 1825 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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