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title: Grainne won him with dire consequences, as all the world knows or ou… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Grainne won him with dire consequences, as all the world knows or ought to know (Kennedy, _Legend Fict. Who acts: Grainne, world. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 15

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Grainne won him with dire consequences, as all the world knows or ought to know (Kennedy, \_Legend Fict.

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**Who acts:** Grainne, world · **What happens:** win, know · **To what, where:** Finn, Kennedy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grainne, world), 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:pg7885:38:15
# text = Grainne won him with dire consequences, as all the world knows or ought to know (Kennedy, _Legend Fict.
1	Grainne	Grainne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dire	dire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	Fict	Fict	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Grainne | Finn |  |  |  | with dire consequences | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **know** | present | all world |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | ought |  | Kennedy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kennedy=Stimulus |

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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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