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title: _--Collected by Mr. Batten from Mrs. H., who heard it from her mothe… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Collected by Mr. Batten from Mrs. H., who heard it from her mother over forty years ago. Who acts: Batten. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 2

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\_--Collected by Mr. Batten from Mrs. H., who heard it from her mother over forty years ago.

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**Who acts:** Batten · **What happens:** collect, hear · **To what, where:** Source

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Batten), 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:pg14241:53:2
# text = _--Collected by Mr. Batten from Mrs. H., who heard it from her mother over forty years ago.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Batten	Batten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Batten  Mr. from Mrs. | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Batten  Mr. from Mrs. | Source |  |  |  | from Mrs.'s mother; ago *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from mother=Source |

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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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