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title: _--This story is especially interesting as having given rise to a ga… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVI. the Golden Ball, sentence 9

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\_--This story is especially interesting as having given rise to a game.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** be, have, give · **To what, where:** given rise

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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 (\_), 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:pg14241:37:9
# text = _--This story is especially interesting as having given rise to a game.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | \_ |  |  |  |  | especially, interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | \_ *not said here* | given rise |  |  |  | to a game | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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