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title: _--I have inserted into the old chap-book version of the _Four Kings… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--I have inserted into the old chap-book version of the _Four Kings of Colchester, Canterbury_, &c., an incident entitled by Halliwell "The Three Questions." Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury, sentence 2

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\_--I have inserted into the old chap-book version of the \_Four Kings of Colchester, Canterbury\_, &c., an incident entitled by Halliwell "The Three Questions."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** insert, entitle · **To what, where:** c., old book version, incident

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg14241:80:2
# text = _--I have inserted into the old chap-book version of the _Four Kings of Colchester, Canterbury_, &c., an incident entitled by Halliwell "The Three Questions."
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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	inserted	insert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Colchester	Colchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Canterbury	Canterbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	c.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Halliwell	Halliwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Questions	Question	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insert** | present · perfect | I | c. |  | the old book version of the Four Kings of Colchester and Canterbury |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **entitle** | participle |  | a incident *not said here* |  |  |  | by Halliwell and the Three Questions | 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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