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title: See my List of Incidents under the titles, "One cheese after another… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: See my List of Incidents under the titles, "One cheese after another," "Hare postman," "Not counting self," "Drowning eels." Who acts: you, Hare postman, my. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 6

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See my List of Incidents under the titles, "One cheese after another," "Hare postman," "Not counting self," "Drowning eels."

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**Who acts:** you, Hare postman, my · **What happens:** see, not count, drown, list · **To what, where:** List, titles, self, eels, Incidents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hare postman, my), 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:pg14241:79:6
# text = See my List of Incidents under the titles, "One cheese after another," "Hare postman," "Not counting self," "Drowning eels."
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	List	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	titles	title	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	postman	postman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
25	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
30	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | my List of Incidents |  | the titles and One cheese after another |  | Hare postman *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **count** *in a quote* | gerund | Hare postman *not said here* | self |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent self=Theme |
| 3 | **drown** *in a quote* | gerund | Hare postman *not said here* | eels |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eel=Patient |
| 4 | **list** |  | my | Incidents |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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