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title: "It's a queer kind of coat to look for, sure-_ly_," said he, "I neve… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "It's a queer kind of coat to look for, sure-_ly_," said he, "I never heard of a coat o' clay. Who acts: head, kind. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 29

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"It's a queer kind of coat to look for, sure-\_ly\_," said he, "I never heard of a coat o' clay.

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**Who acts:** head, kind · **What happens:** be, look, say, not hear · **To what, where:** queer kind · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, kind), 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:pg14241:22:29
# text = "It's a queer kind of coat to look for, sure-_ly_," said he, "I never heard of a coat o' clay.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ly	ly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	's	PART	POS	_	32	punct	_	_
32	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | head | a queer kind |  |  |  | of coat | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | kind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | kind |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | past | kind |  |  |  |  | of a coat; of clay | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of coat=Stimulus |

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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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