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title: It is clearly parallel with the Grimms' _Frau Holle_, where the good… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is clearly parallel with the Grimms' _Frau Holle_, where the good girl is rewarded and the bad punished in a similar way. Who acts: 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 5

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It is clearly parallel with the Grimms' \_Frau Holle\_, where the good girl is rewarded and the bad punished in a similar way.

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**Who acts:** memory · **What happens:** be, reward, punish · **To what, where:** good girl, bad, similar way

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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 (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:pg14241:55:5
# text = It is clearly parallel with the Grimms' _Frau Holle_, where the good girl is rewarded and the bad punished in a similar way.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	parallel	parallel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	_	_	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Frau	Frau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | memory |  |  |  |  | with the Grimms \_ Frau; clearly, parallel *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reward** | present · passive |  | the good girl |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **punish** | participle · passive |  | the bad |  | a similar way |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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