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title: _--"Hereafterthis" is thus a _mélange_ of droll incidents, yet has c… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--"Hereafterthis" is thus a _mélange_ of droll incidents, yet has characteristic folkish touches ("can you milk-y, bake-y," "when I lived home") which give it much vivacity. Who acts: Hereafterthis, Halliwell, characteristic folkish touches. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 15

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\_--"Hereafterthis" is thus a \_mélange\_ of droll incidents, yet has characteristic folkish touches ("can you milk-y, bake-y," "when I lived home") which give it much vivacity.

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**Who acts:** Hereafterthis, Halliwell, characteristic folkish touches · **What happens:** be, have, live, give · **To what, where:** mélange \_, characteristic folkish touches, y

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereafterthis, Halliwell, characteristic folkish touches), 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:pg14241:36:15
# text = _--"Hereafterthis" is thus a _mélange_ of droll incidents, yet has characteristic folkish touches ("can you milk-y, bake-y," "when I lived home") which give it much vivacity.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hereafterthis	Hereafterthis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mélange	mélange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	droll	droll	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	folkish	folkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
25	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	y	y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	bake	bake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	y	y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
38	home	home	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	vivacity	vivacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Hereafterthis | a mélange \_ |  |  |  | of droll incidents; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | characteristic folkish touches |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Patient |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | past | Halliwell |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | characteristic folkish touches | y |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient vivacity=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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