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title: Child in his comments on the ballad, _English and Scotch Ballads_, i… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Child in his comments on the ballad, _English and Scotch Ballads_, i, 403-14. Who acts: Child. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXII. King John and the Abbot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXII. King John and the Abbot, sentence 13

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Child in his comments on the ballad, \_English and Scotch Ballads\_, i, 403-14.

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**Who acts:** Child · **What happens:** comment · **To what, where:** ballad

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXII. King John and the Abbot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Child), 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:pg14241:63:13
# text = Child in his comments on the ballad, _English and Scotch Ballads_, i, 403-14.
1	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Scotch	scotch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	Ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	403-14	403-14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comment** |  | Child |  |  | the ballad |  |  | nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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