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title: _--An interesting example of the spread and development of a simple… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--An interesting example of the spread and development of a simple anecdote throughout England. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIV. King O' Cats, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXIV. King O' Cats, sentence 12

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\_--An interesting example of the spread and development of a simple anecdote throughout England.

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**What happens:** exemplify, develop · **To what, where:** spread, simple anecdote

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIV. King O' Cats. 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:pg14241:67:12
# text = _--An interesting example of the spread and development of a simple anecdote throughout England.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	anecdote	anecdote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exemplify** |  |  | the spread and development of a simple anecdote throughout England |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 2 | **develop** |  |  | a simple anecdote throughout England |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=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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