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title: _--It is clearly a variant of Southey's _Three Bears_ (No. xviii.). — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--It is clearly a variant of Southey's _Three Bears_ (No. xviii.). Who acts: Source. 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 4

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\_--It is clearly a variant of Southey's \_Three Bears\_ (No. xviii.).

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**Who acts:** Source · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** variant

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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 (Source), 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:pg14241:53:4
# text = _--It is clearly a variant of Southey's _Three Bears_ (No. xviii.).
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	Southey	Southey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	Bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	No.	no.	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	xviii	xviii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Source | a variant |  |  |  | of Southey's \_ Three Bears and no. xviii; clearly *property* | 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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