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title: 287-9, I have rewritten, as the original was rather high falutin'. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 287-9, I have rewritten, as the original was rather high falutin'. Who acts: I, original. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 3

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287-9, I have rewritten, as the original was rather high falutin'.

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**Who acts:** I, original · **What happens:** rewrite, be

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, original), 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:pg14241:78:3
# text = 287-9, I have rewritten, as the original was rather high falutin'.
1	287-9	287-9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	rewritten	rewrite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	falutin	falutin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rewrite** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the original |  |  |  |  | as high falutin | 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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