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title: _--Chambers's _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Chambers's _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. Who acts: Scotland. 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 2

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\_--Chambers's \_Popular Rhymes of Scotland\_.

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**Who acts:** Scotland · **What happens:** rhyme

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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 (Scotland), 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:pg14241:48:2
# text = _--Chambers's _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Chambers	Chambers	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rhyme** |  | Scotland |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: of=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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