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title: Hout," quoth she, "be no afeard; it's but a wee bannock. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hout," quoth she, "be no afeard; it's but a wee bannock. Who acts: you, Bannock. 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 37

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Hout," quoth she, "be no afeard; it's but a wee bannock.

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**Who acts:** you, Bannock · **What happens:** hout, quoth, be · **To what, where:** wife, wee bannock

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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 (you, Bannock), 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:pg14241:21:37
# text = Hout," quoth she, "be no afeard; it's but a wee bannock.
1	Hout	hout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	afeard	afeard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bannock	bannock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hout** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **quoth** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afeard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Bannock | a wee bannock |  |  |  |  | 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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