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title: _Parallels_.--In Yorkshire this occurs as “Habetrot and Scantlie Mab… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--In Yorkshire this occurs as “Habetrot and Scantlie Mab,” in Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, 221-6; in Devonshire as “Duffy and the Devil” in Hunt's _Romances and Drolls of the West of England_, 239-47; in Scotland two variants are given by Chambers, _Popular Rhymes of Sco
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# English Fairy Tales, I. Tom Tit Tot., sentence 4

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\_Parallels\_.--In Yorkshire this occurs as “Habetrot and Scantlie Mab,” in Henderson's \_Folk-Lore of Northern Counties\_, 221-6; in Devonshire as “Duffy and the Devil” in Hunt's \_Romances and Drolls of the West of England\_, 239-47; in Scotland two variants are given by Chambers, \_Popular Rhymes of Scotland\_, under the title “Whuppity Stourie.”

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**Who acts:** Parallels, Chambers, Scotland · **What happens:** occur, droll, give, rhyme · **To what, where:** Romances, Henderson, West, two variants, Scotland

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Tom Tit Tot.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, Chambers, Scotland), 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:pg7439:51:4
# text = _Parallels_.--In Yorkshire this occurs as “Habetrot and Scantlie Mab,” in Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, 221-6; in Devonshire as “Duffy and the Devil” in Hunt's _Romances and Drolls of the West of England_, 239-47; in Scotland two variants are given by Chambers, _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_, under the title “Whuppity Stourie.”
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
8	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Scantlie	Scantlie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	Mab	Mab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Henderson	Henderson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Counties	county	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	221-6	221-6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Devonshire	Devonshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Duffy	Duffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Hunt	Hunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Romances	Romance	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	Drolls	droll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	239-47	239-47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	61	punct	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	_
58	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	nummod	_	_
59	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj:pass	_	_
60	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux:pass	_	_
61	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
62	by	by	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	Chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
65	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	appos	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
72	under	under	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
74	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	parataxis	_	_
75	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	76	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	Whuppity	Whuppity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	74	appos	_	_
77	Stourie	Stourie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	76	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	76	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	74	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | Parallels in Yorkshire | Romances |  | Henderson and Folk Lore of Northern Counties |  | as Habetrot and Scantlie | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in henderson=Location |
| 2 | **droll** | present | Parallels in Yorkshire *not said here* | the West of England |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present · passive | Chambers | two variants |  | Scotland |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **rhyme** |  | Scotland |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication 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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