--- title: Mr. Clodd sees in the class of name-guessing stories, a “survival” o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Mr. Clodd sees in the class of name-guessing stories, a “survival” of the superstition that to know a man's name gives you power over him, for which reason savages object to tell their names. Who acts: Clodd, superstition, survival, names. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Tom --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [I. Tom Tit Tot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/) / 8 # English Fairy Tales, I. Tom Tit Tot., sentence 8 Mr. Clodd sees in the class of name-guessing stories, a “survival” of the superstition that to know a man's name gives you power over him, for which reason savages object to tell their names. **Who acts:** Clodd, superstition, survival, names, man, stories · **What happens:** see, guess, know, give, tell, survive · **To what, where:** class, name, power, you, superstition · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Clodd, superstition, survival, names), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:51:8 # text = Mr. Clodd sees in the class of name-guessing stories, a “survival” of the superstition that to know a man's name gives you power over him, for which reason savages object to tell their names. 1 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Clodd Clodd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 guessing guess VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 survival survival NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 superstition superstition NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 obl _ _ 35 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 savages savage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 compound _ _ 37 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 parataxis _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | Clodd Mr. | | | the class of guessing stories | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **guess** | gerund | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | the superstition | a man's name | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | | 4 | **give** | present | a survival of the superstition | power | you | | | over Clodd | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient power=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | stories's names | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **survive** *in a quote* | | | the superstition | | | | | nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **name** | | a man | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **name** | | stories *= story* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/9/) - ↑ back to [I. 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