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title: Goldsmith knew the story by the name of "Catskin," as he refers to i… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Goldsmith knew the story by the name of "Catskin," as he refers to it in the _Vicar_. Who acts: Goldsmith. 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 6

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Goldsmith knew the story by the name of "Catskin," as he refers to it in the \_Vicar\_.

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**Who acts:** Goldsmith · **What happens:** know, refer, name · **To what, where:** story, name, Vicar, Catskin

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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 (Goldsmith), 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:pg14241:76:6
# text = Goldsmith knew the story by the name of "Catskin," as he refers to it in the _Vicar_.
1	Goldsmith	Goldsmith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Vicar	Vicar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Goldsmith | the story |  |  |  | by the name of Catskin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 2 | **refer** | present | Goldsmith |  | name | the Vicar |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to it=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | Catskin |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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