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title: Halliwell remarks that the tale throws light on a passage in Ben Jon… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Halliwell remarks that the tale throws light on a passage in Ben Jonson: Who acts: Halliwell, tale. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 8

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Halliwell remarks that the tale throws light on a passage in Ben Jonson:

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**Who acts:** Halliwell, tale · **What happens:** remark, throw · **To what, where:** light, passage

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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 (Halliwell, tale), 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:pg14241:36:8
# text = Halliwell remarks that the tale throws light on a passage in Ben Jonson:
1	Halliwell	Halliwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remarks	remark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	Jonson	Jonson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | present | Halliwell |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | present | the tale | light |  | a passage in Ben |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on passage=Destination |

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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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