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title: Child in his _Eng. and Scotch Ballads_, i., 335-58. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Child in his _Eng. and Scotch Ballads_, i., 335-58. Who acts: Child. 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 3

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Child in his \_Eng. and Scotch Ballads\_, i., 335-58.

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**Who acts:** Child · **What happens:** scotch · **To what, where:** Ballads

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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), 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:pg14241:68:3
# text = Child in his _Eng. and Scotch Ballads_, i., 335-58.
1	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Eng	eng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Scotch	scotch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	Ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	335-58	335-58	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scotch** | infinitive | Child in Child's Eng | Ballads |  |  |  |  | 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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