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title: OYEZ OYEZ OYEZ THE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES ARE NOW CLOSED LITTLE BOYS AN… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: OYEZ OYEZ OYEZ THE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES ARE NOW CLOSED LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS MUST NOT READ ANY FURTHER] Who acts: LITTLE BOYS. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 3

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OYEZ OYEZ OYEZ THE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES ARE NOW CLOSED LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS MUST NOT READ ANY FURTHER\]

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**Who acts:** LITTLE BOYS · **What happens:** close, not read · **To what, where:** OYEZ

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LITTLE BOYS), 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:pg14241:34:3
# text = OYEZ OYEZ OYEZ THE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES ARE NOW CLOSED LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS MUST NOT READ ANY FURTHER]
1	OYEZ	OYEZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	OYEZ	OYEZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	OYEZ	OYEZ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	ENGLISH	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	FAIRY	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	TALES	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	ARE	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	NOW	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	CLOSED	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	LITTLE	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	BOYS	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	GIRLS	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	MUST	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	READ	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	ANY	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	FURTHER	further	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | present · passive |  | OYEZ |  |  | now |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **read** | must | LITTLE BOYS and GIRLS |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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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