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title: _ 687), the mythological explanation being that cows = the clouds an… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ 687), the mythological explanation being that cows = the clouds and the dragon = the storm. Who acts: mythological explanation. 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 8

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\_ 687), the mythological explanation being that cows = the clouds and the dragon = the storm.

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**Who acts:** mythological explanation · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** storm

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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 (mythological explanation), 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:pg14241:78:8
# text = _ 687), the mythological explanation being that cows = the clouds and the dragon = the storm.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	687	687	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
10	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
11	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | the mythological explanation | the storm |  |  |  |  | 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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