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title: 866-7; Spelman, _Icenia_, 1640, p. 138; Dugdale, _Imbanking_, 1662 (… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 866-7; Spelman, _Icenia_, 1640, p. 138; Dugdale, _Imbanking_, 1662 (ed. Who acts: Spelman. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 14

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866-7; Spelman, \_Icenia\_, 1640, p. 138; Dugdale, \_Imbanking\_, 1662 (ed.

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**Who acts:** Spelman · **What happens:** imbank · **To what, where:** 1662

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spelman), 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:pg14241:43:14
# text = 866-7; Spelman, _Icenia_, 1640, p. 138; Dugdale, _Imbanking_, 1662 (ed.
1	866-7	866-7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Spelman	Spelman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Icenia	Icenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	1640	1640	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	138	138	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Dugdale	Dugdale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Imbanking	imbank	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	1662	1662	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imbank** | gerund | Spelman and p. and Dugdale *not said here* | 1662 |  |  |  |  | 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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