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title: The ruffians were appropriately named Rawbones and Woudkill. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The ruffians were appropriately named Rawbones and Woudkill. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 11

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The ruffians were appropriately named Rawbones and Woudkill.

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**What happens:** name · **To what, where:** ruffians

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood. 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:pg14241:59:11
# text = The ruffians were appropriately named Rawbones and Woudkill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ruffians	ruffian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	appropriately	appropriately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Rawbones	Rawbones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Woudkill	Woudkill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | the ruffians |  |  |  | appropriately *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «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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