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title: _--This remarkable variant raises the question whether Southey did a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--This remarkable variant raises the question whether Southey did anything more than transform Scrapefoot into his naughty old woman, who in her turn has been transformed by popular tradition into the naughty girl Silver-hair. Who acts: _, Southey, popular tradition. A sentence of «More English Fai
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 6

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\_--This remarkable variant raises the question whether Southey did anything more than transform Scrapefoot into his naughty old woman, who in her turn has been transformed by popular tradition into the naughty girl Silver-hair.

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**Who acts:** \_, Southey, popular tradition · **What happens:** raise, do, transform · **To what, where:** question, anything, naughty old woman, turn

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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 (\_, Southey, popular tradition), 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:pg14241:53:6
# text = _--This remarkable variant raises the question whether Southey did anything more than transform Scrapefoot into his naughty old woman, who in her turn has been transformed by popular tradition into the naughty girl Silver-hair.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Southey	Southey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	transform	transform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
35	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
36	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
37	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | \_ | the question |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | Southey | anything |  |  |  | into Southey's naughty old woman | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 3 | **transform** | present · perfect · passive | popular tradition | Southey's naughty old woman |  | variant's turn |  | into the naughty girl Silver hair *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into hair=Result |

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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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