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title: _Heckling_ is combing it with a _heckle_ or wooden comb; _binnings_… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Heckling_ is combing it with a _heckle_ or wooden comb; _binnings_ are halters for cattle made of _sprit_ or rushes. Who acts: Heckling, binnings, sprit. 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 7

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\_Heckling\_ is combing it with a \_heckle\_ or wooden comb; \_binnings\_ are halters for cattle made of \_sprit\_ or rushes.

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**Who acts:** Heckling, binnings, sprit · **What happens:** heckle, comb, be, make, rush · **To what, where:** \_, flax, halters, cattle

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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 (Heckling, binnings, sprit), 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:pg14241:48:7
# text = _Heckling_ is combing it with a _heckle_ or wooden comb; _binnings_ are halters for cattle made of _sprit_ or rushes.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Heckling	heckle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	heckle	heckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	binnings	binning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	halters	halter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	sprit	sprit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heckle** | gerund |  | \_ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **comb** | present · progressive | Heckling | flax |  |  |  | with a \_ heckle or wooden comb | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | binnings | halters and sprit |  |  |  | for cattle | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | cattle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **rush** | present | sprit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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