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title: Fair, Brown, and Trembling"--these four in Gaelic, the last in Erse. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fair, Brown, and Trembling"--these four in Gaelic, the last in Erse. 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 20

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Fair, Brown, and Trembling"--these four in Gaelic, the last in Erse.

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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:pg14241:64:20
# text = Fair, Brown, and Trembling"--these four in Gaelic, the last in Erse.
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Gaelic	Gaelic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Erse	Erse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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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