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title: _--Mrs. Balfour's old nurse, now in New Zealand. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Mrs. Balfour's old nurse, now in New Zealand. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, sentence 2

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\_--Mrs. Balfour's old nurse, now in New Zealand.

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg14241:69:2
# text = _--Mrs. Balfour's old nurse, now in New Zealand.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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