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title: On surprising robbers, see preceding tale. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On surprising robbers, see preceding tale. Who acts: you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Mr. Vinegar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, VI. Mr. Vinegar., sentence 6

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On surprising robbers, see preceding tale.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, precede · **To what, where:** surprising robbers, tale

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Mr. Vinegar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7439:56:6
# text = On surprising robbers, see preceding tale.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | surprising robbers |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **precede** | gerund | you *not said here* | tale |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tale=Co-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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