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title: _--Collected by Mrs. Gomme at Deptford. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Collected by Mrs. Gomme at Deptford. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIV. the Old Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXIV. the Old Witch, sentence 2

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\_--Collected by Mrs. Gomme at Deptford.

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**What happens:** collect · **To what, where:** Deptford

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIV. the Old Witch. 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:pg14241:55:2
# text = _--Collected by Mrs. Gomme at Deptford.
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	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
6	Gomme	Gomme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Deptford	Deptford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 |  |  |  | Deptford |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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