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title: _--The fool's wife is clearly related to the Clever Lass of "Gobborn… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The fool's wife is clearly related to the Clever Lass of "Gobborn Seer," where see Notes. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains, sentence 4

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\_--The fool's wife is clearly related to the Clever Lass of "Gobborn Seer," where see Notes.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** Notes

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg14241:61:4
# text = _--The fool's wife is clearly related to the Clever Lass of "Gobborn Seer," where see Notes.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Clever	Clever	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Lass	Lass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the fool's wife |  |  |  |  | to the Clever Lass of Gobborn Seer; clearly, related *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | the fool's wife *not said here* | Notes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |

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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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