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title: _Parallels_.--The story is clearly that of Grimm's “Singing Bone” (N… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--The story is clearly that of Grimm's “Singing Bone” (No. 28), where one brother slays the other and buries him under a bush. Who acts: story, one brother. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Binnorie., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, IX. Binnorie., sentence 4

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\_Parallels\_.--The story is clearly that of Grimm's “Singing Bone” (No. 28), where one brother slays the other and buries him under a bush.

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**Who acts:** story, one brother · **What happens:** be, sing, slay, bury · **To what, where:** that, Bone, other, brother, bush · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (story, one brother), 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:pg7439:59:4
# text = _Parallels_.--The story is clearly that of Grimm's “Singing Bone” (No. 28), where one brother slays the other and buries him under a bush.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	Bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	slays	slay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	buries	bury	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **is a** | present | the story | that |  |  |  | clearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | the story *not said here* | Bone |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=Theme |
| 3 | **slay** | present | one brother | the other |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient |
| 4 | **bury** | present | one brother *not said here* | brother |  | a bush |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under bush=Destination |

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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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