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title: They recognise the unusual forms while enjoying the fun of them. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They recognise the unusual forms while enjoying the fun of them. Who acts: children. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 42

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They recognise the unusual forms while enjoying the fun of them.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** recognise, enjoy · **To what, where:** unusual forms, fun

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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 (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:pg14241:4:42
# text = They recognise the unusual forms while enjoying the fun of them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	recognise	recognise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | present | children *= child* | the unusual forms |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus |
| 2 | **enjoy** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | the fun of children |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=Stimulus |

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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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