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title: As Mr. Allingham remarks, it is the best of the ballads of the pedes… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As Mr. Allingham remarks, it is the best of the ballads of the pedestrian order. Who acts: Allingham, form. 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 4

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As Mr. Allingham remarks, it is the best of the ballads of the pedestrian order.

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**Who acts:** Allingham, form · **What happens:** remark, be

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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: who acts (Allingham, form), 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:pg14241:59:4
# text = As Mr. Allingham remarks, it is the best of the ballads of the pedestrian order.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Allingham	Allingham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remarks	remark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	pedestrian	pedestrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | present | Allingham  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | form |  |  |  |  | of the ballads of the pedestrian order; good *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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