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title: The latter part of the tale has been turned into a game for English… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter part of the tale has been turned into a game for English children, "Mary Brown," given in Miss Plunket's _Merry Games_, but not included in Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_. Who acts: American Children. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVI. the Gol
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVI. the Golden Ball, sentence 7

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The latter part of the tale has been turned into a game for English children, "Mary Brown," given in Miss Plunket's \_Merry Games\_, but not included in Newell, \_Games and Songs of American Children\_.

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**Who acts:** American Children · **What happens:** turn, give, not include, sing · **To what, where:** latter part, game, Mary, \_ Merry Games, Newell

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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 (American Children), 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:pg14241:37:7
# text = The latter part of the tale has been turned into a game for English children, "Mary Brown," given in Miss Plunket's _Merry Games_, but not included in Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Plunket	Plunket	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Merry	Merry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Games	Game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	included	include	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Newell	Newell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · perfect · passive |  | the latter part of the tale |  | a game |  | for English children | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into game=Trajectory |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | Mary *not said here* |  | Miss Plunket's \_ Merry Games |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **include** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in Newell *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in newell=Goal |
| 4 | **sing** |  | American Children |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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