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title: In most cases Mr. Clouston quotes Eastern analogies. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In most cases Mr. Clouston quotes Eastern analogies. Who acts: Mr.. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 7

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In most cases Mr. Clouston quotes Eastern analogies.

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**Who acts:** Mr. · **What happens:** quote · **To what, where:** Eastern analogies, most cases

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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 (Mr.), 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:pg14241:79:7
# text = In most cases Mr. Clouston quotes Eastern analogies.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	quotes	quote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	analogies	analogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | present | Mr. | Eastern analogies |  | most cases |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent analogy=Topic |

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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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