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title: _--_Diary of Abraham de la Pryme_ (Surtees Soc.) under date 10th Nov… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--_Diary of Abraham de la Pryme_ (Surtees Soc.) under date 10th November, 1699, but rewritten by Mr. Nutt, who has retained the few characteristic seventeenth century touches of Pryme's dull and colourless narration. Who acts: Nutt, Pryme. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 2

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\_--\_Diary of Abraham de la Pryme\_ (Surtees Soc.) under date 10th November, 1699, but rewritten by Mr. Nutt, who has retained the few characteristic seventeenth century touches of Pryme's dull and colourless narration.

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**Who acts:** Nutt, Pryme · **What happens:** rewrite, retain, touch, narrate · **To what, where:** Diary, few characteristic century touches, dull narration

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nutt, Pryme), 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:pg14241:54:2
# text = _--_Diary of Abraham de la Pryme_ (Surtees Soc.) under date 10th November, 1699, but rewritten by Mr. Nutt, who has retained the few characteristic seventeenth century touches of Pryme's dull and colourless narration.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Diary	Diary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
8	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
9	Pryme	Pryme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Surtees	Surtees	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Soc	Soc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
18	10th	10th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	1699	1699	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	rewritten	rewrite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	retained	retain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
33	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
34	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
39	Pryme	Pryme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	colourless	colourless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
44	narration	narration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rewrite** | participle |  | Diary under date and Abraham *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **retain** | present · perfect | Nutt  Mr. | the few characteristic century touches of Pryme's dull narration |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **touch** |  |  | Pryme's dull narration |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **narrate** |  | Pryme |  |  |  |  |  | nom narration «communication transitive»: poss=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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