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title: Slaying of disguise helpful animal. helpful animal. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Slaying of disguise helpful animal. helpful animal. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, English Variants of Cinderella, sentence 21

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Slaying of disguise helpful animal. helpful animal.

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**What happens:** slay

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella. 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:pg14241:65:21
# text = Slaying of disguise helpful animal. helpful animal.
1	Slaying	slay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
7	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of disguise helpful animal | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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