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title: _--The king and his three sons are familiar figures in European _mär… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The king and his three sons are familiar figures in European _märchen_. Who acts: king. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXI. the King of England, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXI. the King of England, sentence 5

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\_--The king and his three sons are familiar figures in European \_märchen\_.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** familiar figures, European märchen

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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 (king), 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:pg14241:62:5
# text = _--The king and his three sons are familiar figures in European _märchen_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	märchen	märchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the king and F's three sons | familiar figures |  | European märchen |  |  | 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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