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title: "By St. Botolph," said the King, "a merry answer and a shrewd; so to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "By St. Botolph," said the King, "a merry answer and a shrewd; so to question the second. Who acts: King. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 57

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"By St. Botolph," said the King, "a merry answer and a shrewd; so to question the second.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** say, question · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg14241:28:57
# text = "By St. Botolph," said the King, "a merry answer and a shrewd; so to question the second.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Botolph	Botolph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	question	question	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  | by Botolph  St. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **question** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  | second |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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