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title: Answer: Twenty-nine pence--one less, I ween, than the Lord. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Answer: Twenty-nine pence--one less, I ween, than the Lord. Who acts: I. 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 4

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Answer: Twenty-nine pence--one less, I ween, than the Lord.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** ween

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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 (I), 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:pg14241:63:4
# text = Answer: Twenty-nine pence--one less, I ween, than the Lord.
1	Answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ween	ween	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ween** | present | I |  |  |  |  | than the Lord | 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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