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title: _Source_.--Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes and Tales_, 114. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Source_.--Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes and Tales_, 114. Who acts: Halliwell. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Old Woman and Pig., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, IV. Old Woman and Pig., sentence 1

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\_Source\_.--Halliwell's \_Nursery Rhymes and Tales\_, 114.

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**Who acts:** Halliwell · **What happens:** rhyme

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Old Woman and Pig.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halliwell), 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:pg7439:54:1
# text = _Source_.--Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes and Tales_, 114.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Halliwell	Halliwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	114	114	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rhyme** |  | Halliwell |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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