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title: Mr. Nutt informs me that parodies of the Irish sagas occur as early… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Nutt informs me that parodies of the Irish sagas occur as early as the sixteenth century, and the present tale may be regarded as a specimen. Who acts: Mr. Nutt, parodies. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany., sentence 15

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Mr. Nutt informs me that parodies of the Irish sagas occur as early as the sixteenth century, and the present tale may be regarded as a specimen.

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**Who acts:** Mr. Nutt, parodies · **What happens:** inform, occur, regard, parody · **To what, where:** me, present tale, Irish sagas

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Nutt, parodies), 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:pg7885:52:15
# text = Mr. Nutt informs me that parodies of the Irish sagas occur as early as the sixteenth century, and the present tale may be regarded as a specimen.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Nutt	nutt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	informs	inform	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	parodies	parody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sagas	saga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | present | Mr. Nutt |  | me |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **occur** | present | parodies of the Irish sagas |  |  |  | century | early *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **regard** | may · passive |  | the present tale |  |  |  | as a specimen | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as specimen=Value |
| 4 | **parody** |  |  | the Irish sagas |  |  |  |  | nom parody «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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