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title: _--Henderson makes out of Habetrot a goddess of the spinning-wheel,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Henderson makes out of Habetrot a goddess of the spinning-wheel, but with very little authority as it seems to me. Who acts: _, it. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab, sentence 9

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\_--Henderson makes out of Habetrot a goddess of the spinning-wheel, but with very little authority as it seems to me.

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**Who acts:** \_, it · **What happens:** make out, seem · **To what, where:** Habetrot, me

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, it), 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:pg14241:74:9
# text = _--Henderson makes out of Habetrot a goddess of the spinning-wheel, but with very little authority as it seems to me.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Henderson	Henderson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make out** | present | \_ | Habetrot |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer habetrot=Stimulus |
| 2 | **seem** | present | it |  | me |  |  | with little authority | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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