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title: _Source_.--Lluyd, _Archaeologia Britannia_, 1707, the first comparat… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Source_.--Lluyd, _Archaeologia Britannia_, 1707, the first comparative Celtic grammar and the finest piece of work in comparative philology hitherto done in England, contains this tale as a specimen of Cornish then still spoken in Cornwall. Who acts: Source. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Jo
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXII. Story of Ivan., sentence 1

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\_Source\_.--Lluyd, \_Archaeologia Britannia\_, 1707, the first comparative Celtic grammar and the finest piece of work in comparative philology hitherto done in England, contains this tale as a specimen of Cornish then still spoken in Cornwall.

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**Who acts:** Source · **What happens:** do, contain, speak · **To what, where:** comparative philology, England, tale, Cornwall · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Story of Ivan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Source), 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:pg7885:56:1
# text = _Source_.--Lluyd, _Archaeologia Britannia_, 1707, the first comparative Celtic grammar and the finest piece of work in comparative philology hitherto done in England, contains this tale as a specimen of Cornish then still spoken in Cornwall.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Lluyd	Lluyd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Archaeologia	Archaeologia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	Britannia	Britannia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	1707	1707	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
16	comparative	comparative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	comparative	comparative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	philology	philology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
33	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Cornish	Cornish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
42	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | comparative philology *not said here* |  | England |  | hitherto *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **contain** | present | Source | this tale |  |  |  | as a specimen of Cornish | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | Source *not said here* |  |  | Cornwall | then; still |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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