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title: His adventures might be regarded as a sequel to the former ones. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His adventures might be regarded as a sequel to the former ones. Who acts: Lore. 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 7

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His adventures might be regarded as a sequel to the former ones.

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**Who acts:** Lore · **What happens:** regard, adventure · **To what, where:** adventures, former ones

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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 (Lore), 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:pg14241:61:7
# text = His adventures might be regarded as a sequel to the former ones.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sequel	sequel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | might · passive |  | Lore's adventures | the former ones |  |  | as a sequel | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as sequel=Value |
| 2 | **adventure** |  | Lore |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act 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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