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title: Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect. Who acts: Children. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 40

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Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** not read · **To what, where:** dialect

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_to My Dear Little May\_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children), 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:pg7439:3:40
# text = Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **read** | future | Children | dialect |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dialect=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:** «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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