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title: The Irish Grimm, however, was Patrick Kennedy, a Dublin bookseller,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Irish Grimm, however, was Patrick Kennedy, a Dublin bookseller, who believed in fairies, and in five years (1866- 71) printed about 100 folk- and hero-tales and drolls (classes 2, 3, and 4 above) in his _Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts_, 1866, _Fireside Stories of Ireland_, 1870, and _Bard
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 14

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The Irish Grimm, however, was Patrick Kennedy, a Dublin bookseller, who believed in fairies, and in five years (1866- 71) printed about 100 folk- and hero-tales and drolls (classes 2, 3, and 4 above) in his \_Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts\_, 1866, \_Fireside Stories of Ireland\_, 1870, and \_Bardic Stories of Ireland\_, 1871; all three are now unfortunately out of print.

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**Who acts:** Dublin bookseller, Irish Grimm, three · **What happens:** be, believe, print, droll · **To what, where:** Patrick, 100 folk, classes, Legendary Fictions, print

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dublin bookseller, Irish Grimm, three), 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:pg7885:34:14
# text = The Irish Grimm, however, was Patrick Kennedy, a Dublin bookseller, who believed in fairies, and in five years (1866- 71) printed about 100 folk- and hero-tales and drolls (classes 2, 3, and 4 above) in his _Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts_, 1866, _Fireside Stories of Ireland_, 1870, and _Bardic Stories of Ireland_, 1871; all three are now unfortunately out of print.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
9	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bookseller	bookseller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	1866	1866	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
27	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
29	printed	print	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	drolls	droll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	above	above	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
52	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	Legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Fictions	fiction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
61	1866	1866	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	58	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	Fireside	fireside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
65	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	conj	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
70	1870	1870	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	58	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
72	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
73	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	75	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	Bardic	bardic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	75	amod	_	_
75	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	parataxis	_	_
76	of	of	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
77	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	75	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	75	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
80	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	75	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	89	punct	_	_
82	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	83	det	_	_
83	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	89	nsubj	_	_
84	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	89	cop	_	_
85	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	89	advmod	_	_
86	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	89	advmod	_	_
87	out	out	ADP	IN	_	89	case	_	_
88	of	of	ADP	IN	_	89	case	_	_
89	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Patrick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | past | a Dublin bookseller |  |  |  |  | in fairies | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **print** | past | the Irish Grimm | 100 folk and hero tales |  |  |  | however *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme |
| 4 | **droll** | present | the Irish Grimm *not said here* | classes |  | Patrick's Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts and Fireside Stories of Ireland |  | above *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | all three |  |  | print | now | unfortunately *property* | 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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