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title: _--I have taken a point here and a point there from the various Engl… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--I have taken a point here and a point there from the various English versions mentioned in the next section. Who acts: I. 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 2

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\_--I have taken a point here and a point there from the various English versions mentioned in the next section.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, mention · **To what, where:** point, various English versions, next section

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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: who acts (I), 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:pg14241:67:2
# text = _--I have taken a point here and a point there from the various English versions mentioned in the next section.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | I | a point |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle |  | the various English versions *not said here* |  | the next section |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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