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title: _ _The Wright's Chaste Wife_ is the English _fabliau_ on the subject. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ _The Wright's Chaste Wife_ is the English _fabliau_ on the subject. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, L. the Three Feathers, sentence 7

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\_ \_The Wright's Chaste Wife\_ is the English \_fabliau\_ on the subject.

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers. 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:pg14241:41:7
# text = _ _The Wright's Chaste Wife_ is the English _fabliau_ on the subject.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Wright	Wright	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Chaste	Chaste	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Wife	Wife	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	_	_	X	GW	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	fabliau	fabliau	X	NN	_	12	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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