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title: This is confirmed by the fact that a thirteenth century French roman… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This is confirmed by the fact that a thirteenth century French romance, _Conte du Graal_, has much the same incidents, and was probably derived from a similar folk-tale of the Celts. Who acts: fact, thirteenth century, Celts. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Shee an Gannon an
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire., sentence 11

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This is confirmed by the fact that a thirteenth century French romance, \_Conte du Graal\_, has much the same incidents, and was probably derived from a similar folk-tale of the Celts.

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**Who acts:** fact, thirteenth century, Celts · **What happens:** confirm, romance, have, derive, tell · **To what, where:** This, same incidents, similar folk tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, thirteenth century, Celts), 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:pg7885:49:11
# text = This is confirmed by the fact that a thirteenth century French romance, _Conte du Graal_, has much the same incidents, and was probably derived from a similar folk-tale of the Celts.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Conte	Conte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	du	du	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Graal	Graal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | present · passive | the fact | This |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Topic |
| 2 | **romance** |  | a thirteenth century |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | the fact *not said here* | the same incidents |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Patient |
| 4 | **derive** | past · passive | the fact *not said here* |  |  | a similar folk tale of the Celts |  | probably *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from tale=Material |
| 5 | **tell** |  | the Celts |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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