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title: Perrault's _Toads and Diamonds_ is of the same _genus_. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perrault's _Toads and Diamonds_ is of the same _genus_. Who acts: _ Toads. 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 6

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Perrault's \_Toads and Diamonds\_ is of the same \_genus\_.

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**Who acts:** \_ Toads · **What happens:** be

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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 (\_ Toads), 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:pg14241:55:6
# text = Perrault's _Toads and Diamonds_ is of the same _genus_.
1	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	genus	genu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Perrault's \_ Toads and Diamonds |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |

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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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