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title: Kow" must not be confounded with the more prosaic animal with a "C." — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Kow" must not be confounded with the more prosaic animal with a "C." 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 4

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Kow" must not be confounded with the more prosaic animal with a "C."

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**What happens:** not confound · **To what, where:** Kow

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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:pg14241:44:4
# text = Kow" must not be confounded with the more prosaic animal with a "C."
1	Kow	Kow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	confounded	confound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	C.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **confound** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | Kow |  |  |  | with the prosaic animal with a C. | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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