--- title: It is to be observed that one of the earliest popular drolls in Euro… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It is to be observed that one of the earliest popular drolls in Europe, _Unibos_, a Latin poem of the eleventh, and perhaps the tenth, century, has the main outlines of the story, the fraudulent sale of worthless objects and the escape from the sack trick. Who acts: earliest popular, Unibos. A sente --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [VI. Hudden and Dudden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/) / 18 # Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 18 It is to be observed that one of the earliest popular drolls in Europe, \_Unibos\_, a Latin poem of the eleventh, and perhaps the tenth, century, has the main outlines of the story, the fraudulent sale of worthless objects and the escape from the sack trick. **Who acts:** earliest popular, Unibos · **What happens:** observe, droll, have · **To what, where:** incident, Europe, main outlines This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earliest popular, Unibos), 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:pg7885:40:18 # text = It is to be observed that one of the earliest popular drolls in Europe, _Unibos_, a Latin poem of the eleventh, and perhaps the tenth, century, has the main outlines of the story, the fraudulent sale of worthless objects and the escape from the sack trick. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 observed observe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 obj _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 earliest early ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nsubj _ _ 12 drolls droll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 16 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Unibos Unibos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Latin Latin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 eleventh eleventh NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 34 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 outlines outline NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 fraudulent fraudulent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 worthless worthless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 escape escape NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 51 from from ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **observe** | present · passive | | incident | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **droll** | present | the earliest popular | | | Europe | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | Unibos | the main outlines of the story and the fraudulent sale of worthless objects and the escape from the sack trick | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outline=Patient | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/19/) - ↑ back to [VI. Hudden and Dudden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/)