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title: _Parallels_.--A fragment is given in Halliwell, 43; Chambers's _Popu… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--A fragment is given in Halliwell, 43; Chambers's _Popular Rhymes_ has a Scotch version, “The Cattie sits in the Kilnring spinning” (p. 53). Who acts: Popular Rhymes, Cattie, Chambers. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Mouse and Mouser., with its dependency tree a
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# English Fairy Tales, X. Mouse and Mouser., sentence 2

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\_Parallels\_.--A fragment is given in Halliwell, 43; Chambers's \_Popular Rhymes\_ has a Scotch version, “The Cattie sits in the Kilnring spinning” (p. 53).

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**Who acts:** Popular Rhymes, Cattie, Chambers · **What happens:** give, have, sit, spin, rhyme · **To what, where:** Parallels, Halliwell, Scotch version, Kilnring, p.

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Mouse and Mouser.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Popular Rhymes, Cattie, Chambers), 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:pg7439:60:2
# text = _Parallels_.--A fragment is given in Halliwell, 43; Chambers's _Popular Rhymes_ has a Scotch version, “The Cattie sits in the Kilnring spinning” (p. 53).
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fragment	fragment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Halliwell	Halliwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	43	43	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	Chambers	Chambers	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Scotch	scotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Cattie	Cattie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Kilnring	Kilnring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	53	53	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | Parallels |  | Halliwell |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Chambers's Popular Rhymes | a Scotch version |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | present | the Cattie |  |  | the Kilnring |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kilnring=Location |
| 4 | **spin** *in a quote* | gerund | the Cattie *not said here* | p. |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme p.=Result |
| 5 | **rhyme** |  | Chambers |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=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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