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title: Mr. Ralston, in the _Nineteenth Century_, 1879, was equally unenligh… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Ralston, in the _Nineteenth Century_, 1879, was equally unenlightening with his sun-myths. Who acts: Ralston. 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 75

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Mr. Ralston, in the \_Nineteenth Century\_, 1879, was equally unenlightening with his sun-myths.

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**Who acts:** Ralston · **What happens:** unenlighten

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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 (Ralston), 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:pg14241:66:75
# text = Mr. Ralston, in the _Nineteenth Century_, 1879, was equally unenlightening with his sun-myths.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Ralston	Ralston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Century	Century	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	1879	1879	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	unenlightening	unenlighten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unenlighten** | past · progressive | Ralston  Mr. and the Nineteenth Century |  |  |  |  | with Mr.'s sun myths; equally *property* | 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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