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title: Then as to using tales in Lowland Scotch, whereat a Saturday Reviewe… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then as to using tales in Lowland Scotch, whereat a Saturday Reviewer, whose identity and fatherland were not difficult to guess, was so shocked. Who acts: Saturday Reviewer. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 19

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Then as to using tales in Lowland Scotch, whereat a Saturday Reviewer, whose identity and fatherland were not difficult to guess, was so shocked.

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**Who acts:** Saturday Reviewer · **What happens:** use, not be, guess, be · **To what, where:** tales, Lowland

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saturday Reviewer), 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:pg14241:4:19
# text = Then as to using tales in Lowland Scotch, whereat a Saturday Reviewer, whose identity and fatherland were not difficult to guess, was so shocked.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	whereat	whereat	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Reviewer	Reviewer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	shocked	shocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | tales |  | Lowland | then |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | a Saturday Reviewer |  |  |  |  | difficult, whereat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **guess** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | shocked *property* | tree rules |

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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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