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title: As a matter of fact, no trace of the tradition in connection with Be… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As a matter of fact, no trace of the tradition in connection with Bedd Gellert can be found before Spencer's time. Who acts: fact. 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 8

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As a matter of fact, no trace of the tradition in connection with Bedd Gellert can be found before Spencer's time.

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**Who acts:** fact · **What happens:** find, matter · **To what, where:** trace

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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 (fact), 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:pg7885:55:8
# text = As a matter of fact, no trace of the tradition in connection with Bedd Gellert can be found before Spencer's time.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Bedd	Bedd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Spencer	Spencer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | can · passive |  | no trace of the tradition in connection with Bedd |  |  | time | as a matter of fact | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme as matter=Attribute |
| 2 | **matter** |  | fact |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition 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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