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title: The one a fine and pretty boy Not passing three years old, The other… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The one a fine and pretty boy Not passing three years old, The other a girl more young than he, And framed in beauty's mould. Who acts: fine boy. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 35

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The one a fine and pretty boy Not passing three years old, The other a girl more young than he, And framed in beauty's mould.

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**Who acts:** fine boy · **What happens:** not pass, frame · **To what, where:** fine boy

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine boy), 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:pg14241:25:35
# text = The one a fine and pretty boy Not passing three years old, The other a girl more young than he, And framed in beauty's mould.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	framed	frame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pass** | gerund | a fine boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **frame** | participle |  | a fine boy *not said here* |  |  |  | in beauty's mould | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mould=Theme |

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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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