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title: _, p. 151) was "none bigger 'n a three years old bairn," and had no… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _, p. 151) was "none bigger 'n a three years old bairn," and had no proper name. Who acts: _. 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 7

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\_, p. 151) was "none bigger 'n a three years old bairn," and had no proper name.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** none, proper name

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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 (\_), 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:pg14241:40:7
# text = _, p. 151) was "none bigger 'n a three years old bairn," and had no proper name.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	151	151	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
9	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
10	'n	'n	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bairn	bairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | \_ | none |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | \_ *not said here* | no proper name |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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