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title: _--"Prosed" from the well-known ballad in Percy. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--"Prosed" from the well-known ballad in Percy. 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 2

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\_--"Prosed" from the well-known ballad in Percy.

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**What happens:** prose, know · **To what, where:** known 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: 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:pg14241:63:2
# text = _--"Prosed" from the well-known ballad in Percy.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Prosed	prose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Percy	Percy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prose** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | the known ballad in Percy |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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