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title: Like as not, she's flaunting about the lanes, and has clean forgot t… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Like as not, she's flaunting about the lanes, and has clean forgot the babby." Who acts: child, flaunting. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 45

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Like as not, she's flaunting about the lanes, and has clean forgot the babby."

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**Who acts:** child, flaunting · **What happens:** flaunt, have, forget · **To what, where:** babby · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, flaunting), 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:pg14241:17:45
# text = Like as not, she's flaunting about the lanes, and has clean forgot the babby."
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	flaunting	flaunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	babby	babby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flaunt** | present · progressive | child |  |  |  |  | about the lanes | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **forget** | past | flaunting | the babby |  |  |  |  | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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