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title: _--Almost all Alfonsi's _exempla_ are from the East. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Almost all Alfonsi's _exempla_ are from the East. Who acts: _ exempla. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVII. News!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXVII. News!, sentence 11

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\_--Almost all Alfonsi's \_exempla\_ are from the East.

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**Who acts:** \_ exempla · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** East

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVII. News!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_ exempla), 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:pg14241:70:11
# text = _--Almost all Alfonsi's _exempla_ are from the East.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	Alfonsi	Alfonsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	exempla	exempla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all Alfonsi's \_ exempla |  |  | the East |  |  | 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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