Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 37

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

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 Fables	punct
2	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 Fables	det
3	Fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 production	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 informs	punct
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Nutt	compound
6	Nutt	nutt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 informs	nsubj
7	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Fables	acl:relcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 informs	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Fables	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 production	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 production	det
12	pseudonymous	pseudonymous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 production	amod
13	production	production	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	probably	probably	ADV	_	18 century	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 century	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 century	det
17	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 century	amod
18	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 production	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 production	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 production	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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.

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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