--- title: Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_, gives a game named “… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_, gives a game named “Club-fist” (No. 75), founded on this, and in his notes refers to German, Danish, and Spanish variants. Who acts: Newell, game, American Children. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Old Woman and Pig., with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [IV. Old Woman and Pig.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/) / 7 # English Fairy Tales, IV. Old Woman and Pig., sentence 7 Newell, \_Games and Songs of American Children\_, gives a game named “Club-fist” (No. 75), founded on this, and in his notes refers to German, Danish, and Spanish variants. **Who acts:** Newell, game, American Children · **What happens:** give, name, found, refer, sing, note · **To what, where:** game, Club fist, No., this, Spanish variants, German 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 (Newell, game, American Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:54:7 # text = Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_, gives a game named “Club-fist” (No. 75), founded on this, and in his notes refers to German, Danish, and Spanish variants. 1 Newell Newell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 fist fist NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 No. no. NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 23 75 75 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 founded found VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 34 refers refer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 German German PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Danish Danish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 variants variant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Newell | a game | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent game=Recipient no.=Theme | | 2 | **name** | participle | a game *not said here* | Club fist | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **found** | participle | | No. *not said here* | | this | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on this=Source | | 4 | **refer** | present | Newell *not said here* | Spanish variants | German and Danish | Newell's notes | | | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to german=Co-Theme | | 5 | **sing** | | American Children | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **note** | | Newell | | | | | | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/8/) - ↑ back to [IV. 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