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title: _ Mr. John Payne's "Sir Edward's Questing" in his _Songs of Life and… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Mr. John Payne's "Sir Edward's Questing" in his _Songs of Life and Death_. Who acts: Life. 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 6

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\_ Mr. John Payne's "Sir Edward's Questing" in his \_Songs of Life and Death\_.

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**Who acts:** Life · **What happens:** sing

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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 (Life), 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:pg14241:69:6
# text = _ Mr. John Payne's "Sir Edward's Questing" in his _Songs of Life and Death_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Payne	Payne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Questing	questing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** |  | Life and Death |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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