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title: Thus "Meddygon Myddvai" would be _Anglice_ "Methugon Muthvai." — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus "Meddygon Myddvai" would be _Anglice_ "Methugon Muthvai." A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 6

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Thus "Meddygon Myddvai" would be \_Anglice\_ "Methugon Muthvai."

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Anglice

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7885:41:6
# text = Thus "Meddygon Myddvai" would be _Anglice_ "Methugon Muthvai."
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Meddygon	Meddygon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Myddvai	Myddvai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Anglice	Anglice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Methugon	Methugon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
13	Muthvai	Muthvai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would |  | Anglice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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