---
title: Mr. Clouston devotes the seventh chapter of his _Book of Noodles_ to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Clouston devotes the seventh chapter of his _Book of Noodles_ to the Quest of the Three Noodles. Who acts: Clouston. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. the Three Sillies., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [II. the Three Sillies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/) / 10

# English Fairy Tales, II. the Three Sillies., sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mr. Clouston devotes the seventh chapter of his \_Book of Noodles\_ to the Quest of the Three Noodles.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Clouston · **What happens:** devote · **To what, where:** seventh chapter, Quest

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. the Three Sillies.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clouston), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7439:52:10
# text = Mr. Clouston devotes the seventh chapter of his _Book of Noodles_ to the Quest of the Three Noodles.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	devotes	devote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Noodles	Noodle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Quest	Quest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Noodles	Noodle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devote** | present | Clouston  Mr. | the seventh chapter of Clouston's Book of Noodles | the Quest of the Three Noodles |  |  |  | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent chapter=Theme to quest=Goal |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/9/)
- next →: [III. the Rose Tree., 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/1/)
- ↑ back to [II. the Three Sillies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/)