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title: Granting all this, there is nothing to show any mythological signifi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 34

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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\_.

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**Who acts:** nothing · **What happens:** grant, be, show, have, name · **To what, where:** this, mythological significance, dramatis personae

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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.

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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:pg7885:47:34
# text = 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_.
1	Granting	grant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	significance	significance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	dramatis	dramatis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	personae	persona	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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