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title: Child remarks that dipping into water or milk is necessary before tr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Child remarks that dipping into water or milk is necessary before transformation can take place, and gives examples, _l.c. Who acts: Child remarks. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXV. Tamlane, sentence 11

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Child remarks that dipping into water or milk is necessary before transformation can take place, and gives examples, \_l.c.

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**Who acts:** Child remarks · **What happens:** dip, be, take, give · **To what, where:** water, place, examples

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Child remarks), 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:pg14241:68:11
# text = Child remarks that dipping into water or milk is necessary before transformation can take place, and gives examples, _l.c.
1	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
4	dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	examples	example	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	l.c	l.c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** | gerund |  |  |  | water or milk |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Child remarks |  |  |  | before transformation | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | can | Child remarks | place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | Child remarks *not said here* | examples |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent example=Recipient l.c=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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