Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 34
Granting all this, there is nothing to show any mythological significance in the tale, though there may have been in the names of the _dramatis personae_.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: grant, be, show, have, name · To what, where: this, mythological significance, dramatis personae
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granting | grant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 is | advcl |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 this | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Granting | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Granting | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 is | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 show | mark |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 significance | det |
| 11 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 significance | amod |
| 12 | significance | significance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tale | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tale | det |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 significance | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 have | expl |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 show | conj |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 have | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 names | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 names | det |
| 24 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 been | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 personae | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 personae | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 personae | punct |
| 28 | dramatis | dramatis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 personae | compound |
| 29 | personae | persona | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 names | nmod |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 personae | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | gerund | nothing not said here | this | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | any mythological significance | in the tale | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent significance=Patient in tale=Topic | |||
| 4 | have | may | nothing not said here | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | name | the dramatis personae | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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.
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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