--- title: _Magic dresses--Meeting-place (Church)--Flight--Lost Shoe--Shoe Marr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: _Magic dresses--Meeting-place (Church)--Flight--Lost Shoe--Shoe Marriage-test--Mutilated foot--False Bride--_Bird witness--Happy Marriage_, follow one another with exemplary regularity in all four (six) versions. Who acts: _ Magic. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/66/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/66/) / 47 # More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 47 \_Magic dresses--Meeting-place (Church)--Flight--Lost Shoe--Shoe Marriage-test--Mutilated foot--False Bride--\_Bird witness--Happy Marriage\_, follow one another with exemplary regularity in all four (six) versions. **Who acts:** \_ Magic · **What happens:** dress, lose, mutilate, follow · **To what, where:** Meeting place, one 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. **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:pg14241:66:47 # text = _Magic dresses--Meeting-place (Church)--Flight--Lost Shoe--Shoe Marriage-test--Mutilated foot--False Bride--_Bird witness--Happy Marriage_, follow one another with exemplary regularity in all four (six) versions. 1 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Magic Magic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dresses dress VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 -- -- PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Church Church PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 Shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Shoe Shoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 18 Marriage Marriage PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Mutilated mutilate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 False false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Bride Bride PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Marriage Marriage PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 follow follow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 obj _ _ 38 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 37 fixed _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 exemplary exemplary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 regularity regularity NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 44 det _ _ 44 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 48 versions version NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | present | \_ Magic | Meeting place and Flight | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mutilate** | participle | | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **follow** | infinitive | | one | | | | with exemplary regularity four versions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/66/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/66/48/) - ↑ back to [Macleod. 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