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title: _--Contributed by Mrs. Balfour originally to _Longman's Magazine_, a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Contributed by Mrs. Balfour originally to _Longman's Magazine_, and thence to _Folk-Lore_, Sept., 1890. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIX. Coat O Clay, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LIX. Coat O Clay, sentence 2

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\_--Contributed by Mrs. Balfour originally to \_Longman's Magazine\_, and thence to \_Folk-Lore\_, Sept., 1890.

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**What happens:** contribute

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIX. Coat O Clay. 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:pg14241:50:2
# text = _--Contributed by Mrs. Balfour originally to _Longman's Magazine_, and thence to _Folk-Lore_, Sept., 1890.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
6	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Longman	Longman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Magazine	Magazine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Sept.	September	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	1890	1890	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contribute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | originally, thence *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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