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title: But Chambers's first variant of _Rashie Coat_ begins with the Catski… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Chambers's first variant of _Rashie Coat_ begins with the Catskin formula in a euphemised form. Who acts: first variant, Rashie Coat. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 10

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But Chambers's first variant of \_Rashie Coat\_ begins with the Catskin formula in a euphemised form.

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**Who acts:** first variant, Rashie Coat · **What happens:** begin, euphemis, vary

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first variant, Rashie Coat), 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:pg14241:76:10
# text = But Chambers's first variant of _Rashie Coat_ begins with the Catskin formula in a euphemised form.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	Chambers	Chambers	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Rashie	Rashie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Coat	Coat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
11	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	euphemised	euphemis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | Chambers's first variant of Rashie Coat |  |  |  |  | with the Catskin formula in a euphemised form | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with formula=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **euphemis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **vary** |  | Rashie Coat |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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