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title: _Remarks_.--Mr. Nutt, in his discussion of the tale (MacInnes, _Tale… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--Mr. Nutt, in his discussion of the tale (MacInnes, _Tales_ 441), makes the interesting suggestion that the obstacles to pursuit, the forest, the mountain, and the river, exactly represent the boundary of the old Teutonic Hades, so that the story was originally one of the Descent to Hell.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 17

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\_Remarks\_.--Mr. Nutt, in his discussion of the tale (MacInnes, \_Tales\_ 441), makes the interesting suggestion that the obstacles to pursuit, the forest, the mountain, and the river, exactly represent the boundary of the old Teutonic Hades, so that the story was originally one of the Descent to Hell.

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**Who acts:** Remarks, obstacles, story, Mr. · **What happens:** make, forest, represent, be, discuss · **To what, where:** interesting suggestion, boundary, one, tale

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remarks, obstacles, story, Mr.), 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:pg7885:58:17
# text = _Remarks_.--Mr. Nutt, in his discussion of the tale (MacInnes, _Tales_ 441), makes the interesting suggestion that the obstacles to pursuit, the forest, the mountain, and the river, exactly represent the boundary of the old Teutonic Hades, so that the story was originally one of the Descent to Hell.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	discussion	discussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	MacInnes	MacInnes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
20	441	441	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	represent	represent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	boundary	boundary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
49	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	Teutonic	Teutonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	Hades	Hade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
58	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	obl	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	Descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Remarks  Nutt  Mr. and Tales | the interesting suggestion |  |  |  | the river *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset suggestion=Product |
| 2 | **forest** |  | the obstacles to pursuit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **represent** | present | Remarks  Nutt  Mr. and Tales *not said here* | the boundary of the old Teutonic Hades |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boundary=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the story | one |  |  |  | of the Descent to Hell; originally *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **discuss** |  | Mr. | the tale |  |  |  |  | nom discussion «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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