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title: _This you will find at the back: you cannot mistake it, for it has J… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _This you will find at the back: you cannot mistake it, for it has J. J. in the wards. Who acts: This, you, back. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, John D. Batten, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, John D. Batten, sentence 7

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\_This you will find at the back: you cannot mistake it, for it has J. J. in the wards.

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**Who acts:** This, you, back · **What happens:** find, not mistake, have · **To what, where:** back, J., wards

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, John D. Batten. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, you, back), 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:pg14241:3:7
# text = _This you will find at the back: you cannot mistake it, for it has J. J. in the wards.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	mistake	mistake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wards	ward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | future | This |  |  | the back |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **mistake** | can | you | back |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | back | J. |  | the wards |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent j.=Patient |

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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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