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title: Palgrave gives a Danish parallel; _cf. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Palgrave gives a Danish parallel; _cf. Who acts: Palgrave. 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 8

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Palgrave gives a Danish parallel; \_cf.

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**Who acts:** Palgrave · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Danish parallel

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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 (Palgrave), 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:pg14241:67:8
# text = Palgrave gives a Danish parallel; _cf.
1	Palgrave	Palgrave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Palgrave | a Danish parallel |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parallel=Theme |

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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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