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title: Cheese squeezing," as a test of prowess, is also common, as in "Jack… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheese squeezing," as a test of prowess, is also common, as in "Jack the Giant Killer" and elsewhere (Köhler, _Jahrbuch_, vii., 252). Who acts: Cheese squeezing. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIX. Little Bull-calf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXIX. Little Bull-calf, sentence 6

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Cheese squeezing," as a test of prowess, is also common, as in "Jack the Giant Killer" and elsewhere (Köhler, \_Jahrbuch\_, vii., 252).

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**Who acts:** Cheese squeezing · **What happens:** be, test · **To what, where:** prowess

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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 (Cheese squeezing), 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:pg14241:72:6
# text = Cheese squeezing," as a test of prowess, is also common, as in "Jack the Giant Killer" and elsewhere (Köhler, _Jahrbuch_, vii., 252).
1	Cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	squeezing	squeezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	prowess	prowess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Killer	Killer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Köhler	Köhler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Jahrbuch	Jahrbuch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	252	252	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Cheese squeezing as a test of prowess |  |  |  |  | Köhler *obl*; common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **test** *in a quote* |  |  | prowess |  |  |  |  | nom test «cognition transitive»: 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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