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title: If THOU--then what this sensual impotence? — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If THOU--then what this sensual impotence? A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 8

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If THOU--then what this sensual impotence?

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. 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:pg14241:46:8
# text = If THOU--then what this sensual impotence?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	THOU	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	sensual	sensual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	impotence	impotence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	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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