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title: There is a fair at the neighbouring town; you shall take these forty… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a fair at the neighbouring town; you shall take these forty guineas and buy a cow. Who acts: you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 20

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There is a fair at the neighbouring town; you shall take these forty guineas and buy a cow.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, neighbour, take, buy · **To what, where:** forty guineas, cow

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7439:11:20
# text = There is a fair at the neighbouring town; you shall take these forty guineas and buy a cow.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	guineas	guinea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	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 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  | fair *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | shall | you | this forty guineas |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guinea=Theme |
| 4 | **buy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a cow |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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