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title: It is clearly the same as Grimm's “Rumpelstiltskin” (No. 14); for ot… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is clearly the same as Grimm's “Rumpelstiltskin” (No. 14); for other Continental parallels see Mr. Clodd's article, and Cosquin, _Contes pop. de Lorraine_, i. 269 _seq_. Who acts: wager, other Continental parallels, Clodd. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Tom Tit Tot., wit
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# English Fairy Tales, I. Tom Tit Tot., sentence 6

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It is clearly the same as Grimm's “Rumpelstiltskin” (No. 14); for other Continental parallels see Mr. Clodd's article, and Cosquin, \_Contes pop. de Lorraine\_, i. 269 \_seq\_.

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**Who acts:** wager, other Continental parallels, Clodd · **What happens:** be, see, article · **To what, where:** article

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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 (wager, other Continental parallels, Clodd), 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:pg7439:51:6
# text = It is clearly the same as Grimm's “Rumpelstiltskin” (No. 14); for other Continental parallels see Mr. Clodd's article, and Cosquin, _Contes pop. de Lorraine_, i. 269 _seq_.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Rumpelstiltskin	rumpelstiltskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Clodd	Clodd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Contes	Contes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
34	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
35	Lorraine	Lorraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	nsubj	_	_
39	269	269	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	parataxis	_	_
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	seq	seq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | wager |  |  |  |  | as Grimm's Rumpelstiltskin; clearly, same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | other Continental parallels | Clodd  Mr.'s article |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer article=Stimulus |
| 3 | **article** |  | Clodd  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom article «communication transitive»: poss=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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