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title: The usual ending of tales of this class contains the “sale of bed” i… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The usual ending of tales of this class contains the “sale of bed” incident, for which see Child, i. 391. Who acts: usual ending, class. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., sentence 4

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The usual ending of tales of this class contains the “sale of bed” incident, for which see Child, i. 391.

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**Who acts:** usual ending, class · **What happens:** contain, see, end, tell · **To what, where:** sale incident, Child, tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (usual ending, class), 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:pg7439:57:4
# text = The usual ending of tales of this class contains the “sale of bed” incident, for which see Child, i. 391.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
21	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
24	391	391	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | the usual ending of tales of this class | the sale incident |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incident=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present |  | Child |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 3 | **end** |  |  | tales of this class |  |  |  |  | nom ending «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **tell** |  | this class |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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