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title: Magic dresses Magic dresses (+ starlings on (honey-bird shoulders).… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Magic dresses Magic dresses (+ starlings on (honey-bird shoulders). finger and stud). Who acts: Magic. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 11

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Magic dresses Magic dresses (+ starlings on (honey-bird shoulders). finger and stud).

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**Who acts:** Magic · **What happens:** dress · **To what, where:** Magic dresses

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magic), 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:pg14241:66:11
# text = Magic dresses Magic dresses (+ starlings on (honey-bird shoulders). finger and stud).
1	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dresses	dress	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	7	cc	_	_
7	starlings	starling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
16	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	stud	stud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | present | Magic | Magic dresses |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient |

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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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