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title: No reference was made in the first edition to the Gellert legend, bu… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No reference was made in the first edition to the Gellert legend, but in the second edition of 1794, p. 75, a note was added telling the legend, "There is a general tradition in North Wales that a wolf had entered the house of Prince Llewellyn. Who acts: telling, general tradition. A sentence of «Ce
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 57

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No reference was made in the first edition to the Gellert legend, but in the second edition of 1794, p. 75, a note was added telling the legend, "There is a general tradition in North Wales that a wolf had entered the house of Prince Llewellyn.

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**Who acts:** telling, general tradition · **What happens:** make, add, tell, be, enter · **To what, where:** reference, first edition, p., second edition, legend, general tradition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (telling, general tradition), 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:pg7885:55:57
# text = No reference was made in the first edition to the Gellert legend, but in the second edition of 1794, p. 75, a note was added telling the legend, "There is a general tradition in North Wales that a wolf had entered the house of Prince Llewellyn.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1794	1794	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
29	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	csubj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod:desc	_	_
51	Llewellyn	Llewellyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | no reference |  | the first edition to the Gellert legend |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | p. |  | the second edition of 1794 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the legend |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent legend=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | telling | a general tradition |  | North Wales |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **enter** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive | a general tradition *not said here* | a wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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