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title: So widespread and well known was the legend that it was in Richard I… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So widespread and well known was the legend that it was in Richard III's time adopted as the national crest. Who acts: legend. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 48

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So widespread and well known was the legend that it was in Richard III's time adopted as the national crest.

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**Who acts:** legend · **What happens:** know, be, adopt · **To what, where:** widespread legend, time

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend), 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:pg7885:55:48
# text = So widespread and well known was the legend that it was in Richard III's time adopted as the national crest.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	III	III	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the widespread legend and Richard's time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | legend |  |  |  | in Richard's time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **adopt** | participle |  | Richard's time *not said here* |  |  |  | as the national crest | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as crest=Attribute |

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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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