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title: _--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars" in _Folk-Lore_,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars" in _Folk-Lore_, ii., somewhat abridged and the dialect removed. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVI. the Buried Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVI. the Buried Moon, sentence 2

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\_--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars" in \_Folk-Lore\_, ii., somewhat abridged and the dialect removed.

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**What happens:** abridge, remove · **To what, where:** dialect

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVI. the Buried Moon. 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:pg14241:57:2
# text = _--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars" in _Folk-Lore_, ii., somewhat abridged and the dialect removed.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Cars	Car	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	abridged	abridge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abridge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **remove** | participle · passive |  | the dialect |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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