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title: _--From Mrs. Balfour's old nurse. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--From Mrs. Balfour's old nurse. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXX. the Wee Wee Mannie, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXX. the Wee Wee Mannie, sentence 2

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\_--From Mrs. Balfour's old nurse.

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXX. the Wee Wee Mannie. 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:pg14241:73:2
# text = _--From Mrs. Balfour's old nurse.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	From	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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