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title: _--Told to Mrs. Balfour by Mrs. M. of S. Northumberland. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Told to Mrs. Balfour by Mrs. M. of S. Northumberland. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIII. the Hedley Kow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LIII. the Hedley Kow, sentence 2

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\_--Told to Mrs. Balfour by Mrs. M. of S. Northumberland.

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**What happens:** tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIII. the Hedley Kow. 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:pg14241:44:2
# text = _--Told to Mrs. Balfour by Mrs. M. of S. Northumberland.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
6	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Northumberland	Northumberland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Mrs. M. of S. | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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