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title: Child gives no less than nine versions in his masterly edition, _l.c. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Child gives no less than nine versions in his masterly edition, _l.c. 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 6

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Child gives no less than nine versions in his masterly edition, \_l.c.

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**Who acts:** Child · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** nine versions, masterly edition

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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:pg14241:68:6
# text = Child gives no less than nine versions in his masterly edition, _l.c.
1	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	masterly	masterly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	l.c	l.c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 | Child | nine versions |  | Child's masterly edition and l.c |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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