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title: “Much sitting, much sitting” (_gruffly_). — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Much sitting, much sitting” (_gruffly_). 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 32

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“Much sitting, much sitting” (\_gruffly\_).

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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: 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:pg7439:38:32
# text = “Much sitting, much sitting” (_gruffly_).
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sitting	sitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sitting	sitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	gruffly	gruffly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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