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title: The “name-guessing wager” is also found in “Peerifool”, printed by M… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The “name-guessing wager” is also found in “Peerifool”, printed by Mr. Andrew Lang in _Longman's Magazine_, July 1889, also _Folk-Lore_, September, 1890. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Tom Tit Tot., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, I. Tom Tit Tot., sentence 5

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The “name-guessing wager” is also found in “Peerifool”, printed by Mr. Andrew Lang in \_Longman's Magazine\_, July 1889, also \_Folk-Lore\_, September, 1890.

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**What happens:** guess, find, print · **To what, where:** guessing wager, Peerifool, Magazine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg7439:51:5
# text = The “name-guessing wager” is also found in “Peerifool”, printed by Mr. Andrew Lang in _Longman's Magazine_, July 1889, also _Folk-Lore_, September, 1890.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	wager	wager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Peerifool	Peerifool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	_
20	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Longman	Longman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	Magazine	Magazine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
32	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	1890	1890	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | the guessing wager |  |  |  | 1890 *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme peerifool=Attribute |
| 3 | **print** | participle |  | Peerifool *not said here* |  | \_ Longman's Magazine |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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