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title: For the finger ladder, see Köhler, in _Orient and Occident_, ii. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For the finger ladder, see Köhler, in _Orient and Occident_, ii. Who acts: you. 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 9

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For the finger ladder, see Köhler, in \_Orient and Occident\_, ii.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** Köhler

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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 (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:pg7439:57:9
# text = For the finger ladder, see Köhler, in _Orient and Occident_, ii.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Köhler	Köhler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Orient	orient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Occident	Occident	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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* | Köhler |  |  |  | for the finger ladder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer köhler=Stimulus |

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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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