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title: An Oxfordshire version was given in _Notes and Queries_, April 17, 1… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: An Oxfordshire version was given in _Notes and Queries_, April 17, 1852. 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 7

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An Oxfordshire version was given in \_Notes and Queries\_, April 17, 1852.

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Oxfordshire version, \_ Notes

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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: 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:pg7439:52:7
# text = An Oxfordshire version was given in _Notes and Queries_, April 17, 1852.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Oxfordshire	Oxfordshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Queries	query	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	1852	1852	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 · passive |  | a Oxfordshire version |  | \_ Notes and Queries |  | 17  April *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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