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title: _--This is clearly _The Valiant Tailor_ of the Grimms: "_x_ at a blo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--This is clearly _The Valiant Tailor_ of the Grimms: "_x_ at a blow" has been bibliographised. Who acts: This, Valiant Tailor. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVIII. Johnny Gloke, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LVIII. Johnny Gloke, sentence 5

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\_--This is clearly \_The Valiant Tailor\_ of the Grimms: "\_x\_ at a blow" has been bibliographised.

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**Who acts:** This, Valiant Tailor · **What happens:** be, bibliographis · **To what, where:** Valiant Tailor, x

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVIII. Johnny Gloke. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Valiant Tailor), 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:pg14241:49:5
# text = _--This is clearly _The Valiant Tailor_ of the Grimms: "_x_ at a blow" has been bibliographised.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	x	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	bibliographised	bibliographis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | the Valiant Tailor and the Grimms |  |  |  | clearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bibliographis** | present · perfect · passive | the Valiant Tailor and the Grimms *not said here* | x |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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