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title: _, "The Sharp Grey Sheep." — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _, "The Sharp Grey Sheep." A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 15

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\_, "The Sharp Grey Sheep."

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie. 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:pg14241:64:15
# text = _, "The Sharp Grey Sheep."
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Grey	Grey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Sheep	Sheep	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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