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title: W. R. Spencer, "Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the Greyhound," first p… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: W. R. Spencer, "Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the Greyhound," first printed privately as a broadsheet in 1800 when it was composed ("August 11, 1800, Dolymalynllyn" is the colophon). Who acts: W.. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and th
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 2

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W. R. Spencer, "Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the Greyhound," first printed privately as a broadsheet in 1800 when it was composed ("August 11, 1800, Dolymalynllyn" is the colophon).

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**Who acts:** W. · **What happens:** print, compose, be · **To what, where:** 1800, broadsheet, colophon

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. 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 (W.), 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:pg7885:55:2
# text = W. R. Spencer, "Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the Greyhound," first printed privately as a broadsheet in 1800 when it was composed ("August 11, 1800, Dolymalynllyn" is the colophon).
1	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
2	R.	R.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Spencer	Spencer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Grave	Grave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Greyhound	Greyhound	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
18	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
19	privately	privately	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	broadsheet	broadsheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Dolymalynllyn	Dolymalynllyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	colophon	colophon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | participle |  |  |  | 1800 |  | as a broadsheet; first, privately *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1800=Destination |
| 2 | **compose** | past · passive |  | broadsheet |  |  |  | 11  August *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | W. | the colophon |  |  |  |  | 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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