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title: Mr. Toulmin Smith gave another version in _The Constitutional_, July… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Toulmin Smith gave another version in _The Constitutional_, July 1, 1853, which was translated by his daughter, and contributed to _Mélusine_, t. ii. Who acts: Toulmin, daughter. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. the Three Sillies., with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# English Fairy Tales, II. the Three Sillies., sentence 6

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Mr. Toulmin Smith gave another version in \_The Constitutional\_, July 1, 1853, which was translated by his daughter, and contributed to \_Mélusine\_, t. ii.

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**Who acts:** Toulmin, daughter · **What happens:** give, translate, contribute · **To what, where:** version, Constitutional \_, Mélusine

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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 (Toulmin, daughter), 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:pg7439:52:6
# text = Mr. Toulmin Smith gave another version in _The Constitutional_, July 1, 1853, which was translated by his daughter, and contributed to _Mélusine_, t. ii.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Toulmin	Toulmin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Constitutional	constitutional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	1853	1853	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Mélusine	Mélusine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	t.	t.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Toulmin  Mr. | another version |  | the Constitutional \_ |  | 1  July *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme |
| 2 | **translate** | past · passive | Toulmin's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **contribute** | participle | Toulmin  Mr. *not said here* |  | Mélusine |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mélusine=Recipient |

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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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