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title: _--This is clearly a variant of _Johnny-cake_ = journey-cake, No. xx… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--This is clearly a variant of _Johnny-cake_ = journey-cake, No. xxviii., where see Notes. Who acts: This, _. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 10

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\_--This is clearly a variant of \_Johnny-cake\_ = journey-cake, No. xxviii., where see Notes.

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**Who acts:** This, \_ · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** variant, Notes

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, \_), 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:pg14241:48:10
# text = _--This is clearly a variant of _Johnny-cake_ = journey-cake, No. xxviii., where see Notes.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	punct	_	_
15	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	xxviii	xxviii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a variant |  |  |  | of Johnny cake \_ and journey cake and No. xxviii; clearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | \_ | Notes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |

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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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