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title: But in Mr. Macleod's version the helpful animal, a sheep, is the her… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But in Mr. Macleod's version the helpful animal, a sheep, is the heroine's mother herself! 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 65

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But in Mr. Macleod's version the helpful animal, a sheep, is the heroine's mother herself!

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mother, version

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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: 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:pg14241:66:65
# text = But in Mr. Macleod's version the helpful animal, a sheep, is the heroine's mother herself!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Macleod	Macleod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the heroine's mother |  | Macleod  Mr.'s version |  | Heroine *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |

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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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