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title: It is possible too, I think, that the Homeric Hesperides and the For… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is possible too, I think, that the Homeric Hesperides and the Fortunate Isles of the ancients had a Celtic origin (as is well known, the early place-names of Europe are predominantly Celtic). Who acts: interest, I, Homeric Hesperides, early place names. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Josep
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 34

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It is possible too, I think, that the Homeric Hesperides and the Fortunate Isles of the ancients had a Celtic origin (as is well known, the early place-names of Europe are predominantly Celtic).

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**Who acts:** interest, I, Homeric Hesperides, early place names · **What happens:** be, think, have, know, name · **To what, where:** Celtic origin, Europe

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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 (interest, I, Homeric Hesperides, early place names), 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:pg7885:35:34
# text = It is possible too, I think, that the Homeric Hesperides and the Fortunate Isles of the ancients had a Celtic origin (as is well known, the early place-names of Europe are predominantly Celtic).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Homeric	Homeric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Hesperides	Hesperid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Isles	Isle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ancients	ancient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	predominantly	predominantly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | interest |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Homeric Hesperides of the ancients and the Fortunate Isles | a Celtic origin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | present · passive | the early place names of Europe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **is** | present | the early place names of Europe |  |  |  |  | celtic, predominantly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Europe |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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