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title: The English folk-muse wears homespun and plods afoot, albeit with a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The English folk-muse wears homespun and plods afoot, albeit with a cheerful smile and a steady gaze. Who acts: English folk muse. 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 30

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The English folk-muse wears homespun and plods afoot, albeit with a cheerful smile and a steady gaze.

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**Who acts:** English folk muse · **What happens:** wear, plod · **To what, where:** homespun

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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 (English folk muse), 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:pg14241:34:30
# text = The English folk-muse wears homespun and plods afoot, albeit with a cheerful smile and a steady gaze.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	muse	muse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	homespun	homespun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	plods	plod	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	afoot	afoot	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	albeit	albeit	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	gaze	gaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **wear** | present | the English folk muse | homespun |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent homespun=Source |
| 2 | **plod** | present | the English folk muse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | albeit a cheerful smile and a steady gaze; afoot *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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