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title: _--_Gypsy Lore Journal_, iii., one of a number of tales told "In a T… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--_Gypsy Lore Journal_, iii., one of a number of tales told "In a Tent" to Mr. John Sampson. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIX. Little Bull-calf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXIX. Little Bull-calf, sentence 2

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\_--\_Gypsy Lore Journal\_, iii., one of a number of tales told "In a Tent" to Mr. John Sampson.

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**What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** tales, Tent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIX. Little Bull-calf. 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:pg14241:72:2
# text = _--_Gypsy Lore Journal_, iii., one of a number of tales told "In a Tent" to Mr. John Sampson.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	Journal	Journal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	In	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	Sampson	Sampson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | tales *not said here* |  | a Tent to John  Mr. |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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