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title: I have eliminated a malodorous and un-English skunk. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have eliminated a malodorous and un-English skunk. Who acts: I. 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 2

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I have eliminated a malodorous and un-English skunk.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** eliminate · **To what, where:** malodorous skunk

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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: who acts (I), 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:pg7439:55:2
# text = I have eliminated a malodorous and un-English skunk.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	eliminated	eliminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	malodorous	malodorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	un-English	un-english	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	skunk	skunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eliminate** | present · perfect | I | a malodorous skunk |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skunk=Patient |

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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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