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title: _--The Perseus and Andromeda incident is frequent in folk-tales; see… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The Perseus and Andromeda incident is frequent in folk-tales; see my List of Incidents _sub voce_ "Fight with Dragon." " Who acts: Perseus incident, my. 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 5

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\_--The Perseus and Andromeda incident is frequent in folk-tales; see my List of Incidents \_sub voce\_ "Fight with Dragon." "

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**Who acts:** Perseus incident, my · **What happens:** be, see, list · **To what, where:** folk tales, List, Incidents

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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: who acts (Perseus incident, my), 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:pg14241:72:5
# text = _--The Perseus and Andromeda incident is frequent in folk-tales; see my List of Incidents _sub voce_ "Fight with Dragon." "
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	Perseus	Perseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Andromeda	Andromeda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	List	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	sub	sub	ADV	AFX	_	22	compound	_	_
22	voce	voce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Perseus incident |  |  | folk tales |  | frequent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  | my List of Incidents and sub voce |  |  |  | Fight with Dragon *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus |
| 3 | **list** |  | my | Incidents and sub voce |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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