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title: The original is in broad Scots, which I have anglicised. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The original is in broad Scots, which I have anglicised. Who acts: original. 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 3

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The original is in broad Scots, which I have anglicised.

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**Who acts:** original · **What happens:** be, anglicise · **To what, where:** broad Scots

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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: who acts (original), 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:pg14241:69:3
# text = The original is in broad Scots, which I have anglicised.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	anglicised	anglicise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the original |  |  | broad Scots |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **anglicise** | present · perfect · passive |  | broad Scots |  |  |  |  | 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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