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title: It should be added that the dainty headpieces to “Henny Penny” and “… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It should be added that the dainty headpieces to “Henny Penny” and “Mr. Fox” are due to my old friend, Mr. Henry Ryland. Who acts: dainty headpieces. 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 61

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It should be added that the dainty headpieces to “Henny Penny” and “Mr. Fox” are due to my old friend, Mr. Henry Ryland.

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**Who acts:** dainty headpieces · **What happens:** add, be · **To what, where:** skill

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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 (dainty headpieces), 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:pg7439:3:61
# text = It should be added that the dainty headpieces to “Henny Penny” and “Mr. Fox” are due to my old friend, Mr. Henry Ryland.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dainty	dainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	headpieces	headpiece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Penny	Penny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	Ryland	Ryland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | should · passive |  | skill |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the dainty headpieces to Henny Penny and Mr. Fox |  |  |  |  | due my old friend | 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:** «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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