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title: This would have sounded somewhat bold in prose. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This would have sounded somewhat bold in prose. 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 5

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This would have sounded somewhat bold in prose.

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**What happens:** sound · **To what, where:** This

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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:pg14241:63:5
# text = This would have sounded somewhat bold in prose.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	sounded	sound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | would · perfect · passive |  | This |  |  |  | bold *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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