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title: _Of Hedging a Cuckoo_ — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Of Hedging a Cuckoo_ Who acts: _. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 44

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\_Of Hedging a Cuckoo\_

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** hedge · **To what, where:** Cuckoo

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_), 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:pg14241:33:44
# text = _Of Hedging a Cuckoo_
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	Hedging	hedge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cuckoo	Cuckoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hedge** | gerund | \_ | a Cuckoo |  |  |  |  | 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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