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title: _), remembers having heard the Unnatural Father incident from a Corn… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _), remembers having heard the Unnatural Father incident from a Cornish servant-girl. 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 14

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\_), remembers having heard the Unnatural Father incident from a Cornish servant-girl.

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**What happens:** remember, have, hear · **To what, where:** Unnatural Father incident · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg14241:76:14
# text = _), remembers having heard the Unnatural Father incident from a Cornish servant-girl.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	ccomp	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	Cornish	cornish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | participle |  | the Unnatural Father incident |  |  |  | from a Cornish servant girl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent incident=Topic from girl=Source |

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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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