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title: _Source_.--_American Folk-Lore Journal_ I, 227-8. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Source_.--_American Folk-Lore Journal_ I, 227-8. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. How Jack Sought His Fortune., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, V. How Jack Sought His Fortune., sentence 1

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\_Source\_.--\_American Folk-Lore Journal\_ I, 227-8.

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. How Jack Sought His Fortune.. 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:pg7439:55:1
# text = _Source_.--_American Folk-Lore Journal_ I, 227-8.
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	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Journal	Journal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	227-8	227-8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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