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title: Stephens gives parallels from Denmark. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Stephens gives parallels from Denmark. Who acts: Stephens. 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 7

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Stephens gives parallels from Denmark.

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**Who acts:** Stephens · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** parallels, Denmark

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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 (Stephens), 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:pg14241:77:7
# text = Stephens gives parallels from Denmark.
1	Stephens	stephen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Stephens | parallels |  | Denmark |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parallel=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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