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description: The nursery rhyme of the frog who would a-wooing go is clearly a variant of this, and has thus a sure pedigree of three hundred years; _cf. Who acts: nursery rhyme, frog. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVIII. Puddock, Mousie, and Ratton, with its dependency tree and the
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXVIII. Puddock, Mousie, and Ratton, sentence 5

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The nursery rhyme of the frog who would a-wooing go is clearly a variant of this, and has thus a sure pedigree of three hundred years; \_cf.

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**Who acts:** nursery rhyme, frog · **What happens:** be, have, rhyme · **To what, where:** variant, sure pedigree

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVIII. Puddock, Mousie, and Ratton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nursery rhyme, frog), 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:pg14241:71:5
# text = The nursery rhyme of the frog who would a-wooing go is clearly a variant of this, and has thus a sure pedigree of three hundred years; _cf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wooing	wooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pedigree	pedigree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	_
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | the nursery rhyme of the frog | a variant |  |  |  | of this; clearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | a sure pedigree of hundred years |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedigree=Patient |
| 3 | **rhyme** |  | the frog |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «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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