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title: Lady Wilde has kindly granted me the use of her effective version of… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Lady Wilde has kindly granted me the use of her effective version of "The Horned Women;" and I have specially to thank Messrs. Who acts: I, Messrs. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 47

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Lady Wilde has kindly granted me the use of her effective version of "The Horned Women;" and I have specially to thank Messrs.

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**Who acts:** I, Messrs · **What happens:** grant, have, thank, use · **To what, where:** Lady, effective version

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_to Alfred Nutt\_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Messrs), 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:pg7885:2:47
# text = Lady Wilde has kindly granted me the use of her effective version of "The Horned Women;" and I have specially to thank Messrs.
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Wilde	Wilde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	Messrs	Messrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | present · perfect · passive |  | Lady |  |  |  | kindly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  | specially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | Messrs |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | Lady's effective version of the Horned Women |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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