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title: I have given him a name, and changed the narration into the oblique… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have given him a name, and changed the narration into the oblique narration, and toned down the dialect. Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIX. Yallery Brown, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIX. Yallery Brown, sentence 4

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I have given him a name, and changed the narration into the oblique narration, and toned down the dialect.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, change, tone down · **To what, where:** name, labourer, narration, oblique narration, dialect

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIX. Yallery Brown. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg14241:40:4
# text = I have given him a name, and changed the narration into the oblique narration, and toned down the dialect.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	narration	narration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	oblique	oblique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	narration	narration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	toned	tone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | I | a name | labourer |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | past | I *not said here* | the narration |  |  |  | into the oblique narration *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent narration=Patient into narration=Result |
| 3 | **tone down** | participle |  | the dialect |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dialect=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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