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title: _--From memory, by Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, as heard by him from his… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--From memory, by Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, as heard by him from his nurse in childhood. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 2

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\_--From memory, by Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, as heard by him from his nurse in childhood.

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**What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** memory, nurse

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam. 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:pg14241:58:2
# text = _--From memory, by Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, as heard by him from his nurse in childhood.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
8	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Sidney	Sidney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	Hartland	Hartland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | participle |  | memory by E. Sidney  Mr. *not said here* |  | Sidney's nurse |  | by Sidney; in childhood | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from nurse=Source |

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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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