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title: “Much praying, much praying” (_piously_). — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Much praying, much praying” (_piously_). Who acts: Much praying. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 28

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“Much praying, much praying” (\_piously\_).

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**Who acts:** Much praying · **What happens:** pray

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Much praying), 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:pg7439:38:28
# text = “Much praying, much praying” (_piously_).
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	praying	praying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	piously	piously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** *in a quote* | gerund | Much praying |  |  |  |  | piously *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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