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title: Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to M… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to Mrs. Saxby's _Birds of Omen in Shetland_ (privately printed, 1893). Who acts: Clouston, remarks. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 24

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Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to Mrs. Saxby's \_Birds of Omen in Shetland\_ (privately printed, 1893).

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**Who acts:** Clouston, remarks · **What happens:** have, print, note · **To what, where:** remarks, raven, 1893

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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: who acts (Clouston, remarks), 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:pg14241:64:24
# text = Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to Mrs. Saxby's _Birds of Omen in Shetland_ (privately printed, 1893).
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	omen	omen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Saxby	Saxby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Omen	Omen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Shetland	Shetland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	privately	privately	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	1893	1893	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Clouston  Mr. | remarks |  | the raven as omen bird in Clouston's notes to Mrs. Saxby's Birds of Omen in Shetland |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Patient |
| 2 | **print** | participle | remarks *not said here* | 1893 |  |  |  | privately *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1893=Theme |
| 3 | **note** |  | Clouston |  |  |  |  | to Mrs. Saxby's Birds of Omen in Shetland | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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