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title: _"Ah! but, grannie, it's such a fine one. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _"Ah! but, grannie, it's such a fine one. Who acts: childer. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 20

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\_"Ah! but, grannie, it's such a fine one.

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**Who acts:** childer · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fine one

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (childer), 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:pg14241:21:20
# text = _"Ah! but, grannie, it's such a fine one.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	grannie	grannie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | childer | such fine one |  |  |  |  | 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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