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title: I have changed "dog and bitch" of original to "dog and cat," and eup… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have changed "dog and bitch" of original to "dog and cat," and euphemised the liver and lights. Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIV. Stupid's Cries, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIV. Stupid's Cries, sentence 4

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I have changed "dog and bitch" of original to "dog and cat," and euphemised the liver and lights.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** change, euphemis · **To what, where:** dog, liver

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIV. Stupid's Cries. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg14241:77:4
# text = I have changed "dog and bitch" of original to "dog and cat," and euphemised the liver and lights.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bitch	bitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	xcomp	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	euphemised	euphemis	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present · perfect | I | dog and bitch |  |  |  | of original | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **euphemis** | past | I *not said here* | the liver and lights |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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