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title: _--I have a dim memory of hearing a similar tale in Australia in 1860. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--I have a dim memory of hearing a similar tale in Australia in 1860. Who acts: I, dim memory. 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 4

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\_--I have a dim memory of hearing a similar tale in Australia in 1860.

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**Who acts:** I, dim memory · **What happens:** have, hear · **To what, where:** dim memory, similar tale, Australia

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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: who acts (I, dim memory), 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:pg14241:55:4
# text = _--I have a dim memory of hearing a similar tale in Australia in 1860.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1860	1860	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a dim memory |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | a dim memory *not said here* | a similar tale |  | Australia |  | in 1860 | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |

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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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