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title: Hugh Miller relates it, in his _Scenes from my Childhood_, as "Ainse… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hugh Miller relates it, in his _Scenes from my Childhood_, as "Ainsel"; it is given in Mr. Hartland's _English Folk and Fairy Tales_; Mr. F.B. Who acts: Hugh. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 6

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Hugh Miller relates it, in his \_Scenes from my Childhood\_, as "Ainsel"; it is given in Mr. Hartland's \_English Folk and Fairy Tales\_; Mr. F.B.

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**Who acts:** Hugh · **What happens:** relate, give · **To what, where:** informant, Scenes, English Folk

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hugh), 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:pg14241:38:6
# text = Hugh Miller relates it, in his _Scenes from my Childhood_, as "Ainsel"; it is given in Mr. Hartland's _English Folk and Fairy Tales_; Mr. F.B.
1	Hugh	Hugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Ainsel	ainsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Hartland	Hartland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:desc	_	_
36	F.B	F.B	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | present | Hugh | informant |  | Hugh's Scenes from my Childhood |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present · passive |  | informant |  | Hartland  Mr.'s English Folk and Fairy Tales and F.B  Mr. |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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