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title: Hindes Groome, _In Gypsy Tents_, told him by John Roberts, a Welsh g… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hindes Groome, _In Gypsy Tents_, told him by John Roberts, a Welsh gypsy, with a few slight changes and omission of passages insisting upon the gypsy origin of the three helpful brothers. Who acts: Hindes, passages. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXI. the King of England
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXI. the King of England, sentence 3

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Hindes Groome, \_In Gypsy Tents\_, told him by John Roberts, a Welsh gypsy, with a few slight changes and omission of passages insisting upon the gypsy origin of the three helpful brothers.

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**Who acts:** Hindes, passages · **What happens:** tell, insist, change · **To what, where:** F · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXI. the King of England. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindes, passages), 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:pg14241:62:3
# text = Hindes Groome, _In Gypsy Tents_, told him by John Roberts, a Welsh gypsy, with a few slight changes and omission of passages insisting upon the gypsy origin of the three helpful brothers.
1	Hindes	Hindes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Groome	Groome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	Roberts	Roberts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	omission	omission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	insisting	insist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Hindes |  | F |  |  | by John | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **insist** *speech: other* | gerund | passages *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the gypsy origin of the three helpful brothers | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **change** |  | passages |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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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