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title: But there can be little doubt of Conn's existence as a powerful rule… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But there can be little doubt of Conn's existence as a powerful ruler in Ireland in the second century. Who acts: little doubt, Conn. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 22

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But there can be little doubt of Conn's existence as a powerful ruler in Ireland in the second century.

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**Who acts:** little doubt, Conn · **What happens:** be, doubt, exist · **To what, where:** existence

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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 (little doubt, Conn), 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:pg7885:35:22
# text = But there can be little doubt of Conn's existence as a powerful ruler in Ireland in the second century.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	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 | **can** | can | little doubt of Conn's existence |  |  | there |  | as a powerful ruler in Ireland in the second century | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **doubt** |  |  | Conn's existence |  |  |  |  | nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **exist** |  | Conn |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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