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title: Stephens gave a variant from his own memory in _Folk-Lore Record_, i… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Stephens gave a variant from his own memory in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii. Who acts: Stephens. 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 4

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Stephens gave a variant from his own memory in \_Folk-Lore Record\_, iii.

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**Who acts:** Stephens · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** variant, own memory

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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 (Stephens), 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:pg7439:52:4
# text = Stephens gave a variant from his own memory in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii.
1	Stephens	stephen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Record	Record	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Stephens | a variant |  | C.'s own memory |  | in Lore Record | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variant=Theme |

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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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