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title: Macmillan for right to use Kennedy's "Legendary Fictions," and Messrs. — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Macmillan for right to use Kennedy's "Legendary Fictions," and Messrs. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 48

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Macmillan for right to use Kennedy's "Legendary Fictions," and Messrs.

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**What happens:** use · **To what, where:** Legendary Fictions

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_to Alfred Nutt\_. 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:pg7885:2:48
# text = Macmillan for right to use Kennedy's "Legendary Fictions," and Messrs.
1	Macmillan	Macmillan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Fictions	fiction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Messrs	Messrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | to-infinitive |  | Kennedy's Legendary Fictions |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiction=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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