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title: Print Llewelyn had a favourite greyhound named Gellert that had been… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Print Llewelyn had a favourite greyhound named Gellert that had been given to him by his father-in-law, King John. Who acts: you, Llewelyn, law. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 1

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Print Llewelyn had a favourite greyhound named Gellert that had been given to him by his father-in-law, King John.

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**Who acts:** you, Llewelyn, law · **What happens:** print, have, name, give · **To what, where:** favourite greyhound, Llewelyn

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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 (you, Llewelyn, law), 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:pg7885:25:1
# text = Print Llewelyn had a favourite greyhound named Gellert that had been given to him by his father-in-law, King John.
1	Print	print	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Llewelyn	Llewelyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Llewelyn | a favourite greyhound |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | a favourite greyhound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | Llewelyn's law | a favourite greyhound | Llewelyn |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to he=Recipient |

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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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