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title: 40-3; to which it was communicated by Miss C. Burne. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 40-3; to which it was communicated by Miss C. Burne. Who acts: Miss C.. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. the Three Sillies., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, II. the Three Sillies., sentence 2

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40-3; to which it was communicated by Miss C. Burne.

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**Who acts:** Miss C. · **What happens:** communicate

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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 (Miss C.), 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:pg7439:52:2
# text = 40-3; to which it was communicated by Miss C. Burne.
1	40-3	40-3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	communicated	communicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	C.	C.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	Burne	Burne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **communicate** | past · passive | Miss C. |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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