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title: “Aih-h-h!--late--wee-e-e--moul” (_pitifully_). — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Aih-h-h!--late--wee-e-e--moul” (_pitifully_). 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 42

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“Aih-h-h!--late--wee-e-e--moul” (\_pitifully\_).

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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:pg7439:38:42
# text = “Aih-h-h!--late--wee-e-e--moul” (_pitifully_).
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Aih	aih	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	moul	moul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	pitifully	pitifully	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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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