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title: The tale of Connla is thus the earliest fairy tale of modern Europe. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The tale of Connla is thus the earliest fairy tale of modern Europe. Who acts: tale, Connla. 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 31

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The tale of Connla is thus the earliest fairy tale of modern Europe.

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**Who acts:** tale, Connla · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** earliest fairy tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tale, Connla), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7885:2292`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:35:31
# text = The tale of Connla is thus the earliest fairy tale of modern Europe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Connla	Connla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the tale of Connla | the earliest fairy tale |  |  |  | of modern Europe; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** |  | Connla |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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