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title: _--Mr. Nutt gave a version in _Folk-Lore Journal_, vi., 144. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Mr. Nutt gave a version in _Folk-Lore Journal_, vi., 144. Who acts: Nutt. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVI. the Golden Ball, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVI. the Golden Ball, sentence 5

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\_--Mr. Nutt gave a version in \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, vi., 144.

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**Who acts:** Nutt · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** version, Folk Lore

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVI. the Golden Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nutt), 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:pg14241:37:5
# text = _--Mr. Nutt gave a version in _Folk-Lore Journal_, vi., 144.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	Journal	Journal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	vi	vi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	144	144	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Nutt  Mr. | a version |  | Folk Lore |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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