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title: 12-28. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 12-28. 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 8

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12-28.

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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: 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:pg7439:57:8
# text = 12-28.
1	12-28	12-28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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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