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title: The surprise at the end, similar to that in Perrault's “Red Riding H… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The surprise at the end, similar to that in Perrault's “Red Riding Hood,” is a frequent device in English folk tales. Who acts: surprise. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Mouse and Mouser., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, X. Mouse and Mouser., sentence 3

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The surprise at the end, similar to that in Perrault's “Red Riding Hood,” is a frequent device in English folk tales.

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**Who acts:** surprise · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** frequent device, English folk tales

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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 (surprise), 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:pg7439:60:3
# text = The surprise at the end, similar to that in Perrault's “Red Riding Hood,” is a frequent device in English folk tales.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
15	Riding	Riding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	device	device	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the surprise at the end | a frequent device |  | English folk tales |  |  | tree rules |

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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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