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title: (_Cf. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: (_Cf. 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 9

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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: 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:pg7439:56:9
# text = (_Cf.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## 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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