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title: _--One might almost suspect Mrs. Balfour of being the victim of a pi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--One might almost suspect Mrs. Balfour of being the victim of a piece of invention on the part of her autobiographical informant. 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 9

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\_--One might almost suspect Mrs. Balfour of being the victim of a piece of invention on the part of her autobiographical informant.

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**What happens:** be

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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: 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:pg14241:40:9
# text = _--One might almost suspect Mrs. Balfour of being the victim of a piece of invention on the part of her autobiographical informant.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	suspect	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	autobiographical	autobiographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	informant	informant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the victim; of a piece of invention on the part of Balfour's autobiographical informant | 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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