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title: Kennedy, _Legendary Fictions_, p. 87, gives a variant with the title… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Kennedy, _Legendary Fictions_, p. 87, gives a variant with the title "The Brown Bear of Norway." Who acts: Kennedy. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 6

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Kennedy, \_Legendary Fictions\_, p. 87, gives a variant with the title "The Brown Bear of Norway."

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**Who acts:** Kennedy · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** variant

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kennedy), 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:pg14241:39:6
# text = Kennedy, _Legendary Fictions_, p. 87, gives a variant with the title "The Brown Bear of Norway."
1	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Fictions	fiction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	87	87	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Kennedy | a variant |  |  |  | with the title | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variant=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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