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title: (These Fables, Mr. Nutt informs me, are a pseudonymous production pr… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: (These Fables, Mr. Nutt informs me, are a pseudonymous production probably of the sixteenth century.) Who acts: Mr. Nutt, Fables. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 37

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(These Fables, Mr. Nutt informs me, are a pseudonymous production probably of the sixteenth century.)

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**Who acts:** Mr. Nutt, Fables · **What happens:** inform, be · **To what, where:** Fables, me, pseudonymous production

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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 (Mr. Nutt, Fables), 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:pg7885:55:37
# text = (These Fables, Mr. Nutt informs me, are a pseudonymous production probably of the sixteenth century.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Nutt	nutt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	informs	inform	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	pseudonymous	pseudonymous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	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 | this Fables *not said here* | me |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this Fables | a pseudonymous production |  |  | century |  | 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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