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title: I have used the longer version in Roberts's _Legendary Ballads_, wit… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have used the longer version in Roberts's _Legendary Ballads_, with one or two touches from Mr. Allingham's shorter and more powerful variant in _The Ballad Book_. Who acts: I, Allingham. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Binnorie., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# English Fairy Tales, IX. Binnorie., sentence 2

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I have used the longer version in Roberts's \_Legendary Ballads\_, with one or two touches from Mr. Allingham's shorter and more powerful variant in \_The Ballad Book\_.

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**Who acts:** I, Allingham · **What happens:** use, vary · **To what, where:** longer version, Legendary Ballads, Ballad Book

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Binnorie.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Allingham), 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:pg7439:59:2
# text = I have used the longer version in Roberts's _Legendary Ballads_, with one or two touches from Mr. Allingham's shorter and more powerful variant in _The Ballad Book_.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	Roberts	Roberts	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
19	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
21	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	Allingham	Allingham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
28	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Ballad	Ballad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · perfect | I | the longer version |  | Roberts's Legendary Ballads |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient |
| 2 | **vary** |  | Allingham  Mr. |  |  | the Ballad Book |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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