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title: For white-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its tai… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For white-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its tail, and unless you get some pondalorum high topper mountain will be all on hot cockalorum.” .... Who acts: white faced simminy, you, some, hot cockalorum. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters, w
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# English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 25

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For white-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its tail, and unless you get some pondalorum high topper mountain will be all on hot cockalorum.” ....

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**Who acts:** white faced simminy, you, some, hot cockalorum · **What happens:** get, mountain, spark · **To what, where:** spark, all

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white faced simminy, you, some, hot cockalorum), 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:pg7439:48:25
# text = For white-faced simminy has got a spark of hot cockalorum on its tail, and unless you get some pondalorum high topper mountain will be all on hot cockalorum.” ....
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	simminy	simminy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cockalorum	cockalorum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
22	pondalorum	pondalorum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cockalorum	cockalorum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
34	....	....	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · perfect | white faced simminy | a spark of hot cockalorum on simminy's tail |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spark=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mountain** |  | some | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spark** |  | hot cockalorum on simminy's tail |  |  |  |  |  | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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