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title: Mrs. Balfour thinks the girl's own weird imagination had much to do… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Balfour thinks the girl's own weird imagination had much to do with framing the details. Who acts: Mrs., own weird imagination, girl. 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 4

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Mrs. Balfour thinks the girl's own weird imagination had much to do with framing the details.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., own weird imagination, girl · **What happens:** think, have, do, frame, imagine · **To what, where:** much, details · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Mrs., own weird imagination, girl), 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:pg14241:57:4
# text = Mrs. Balfour thinks the girl's own weird imagination had much to do with framing the details.
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	framing	frame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Mrs. |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the girl's own weird imagination | much |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **frame** | gerund |  | the details |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent detail=Destination |
| 5 | **imagine** |  | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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