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title: “Catskin” was told by Mr. Burchell to the young Primroses in “The Vi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Catskin” was told by Mr. Burchell to the young Primroses in “The Vicar of Wakefield,'” and has been elaborately studied by the late H. C. Coote, in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii. Who acts: Burchell, late H. C.. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Cap O' Rushes., with its dependency 
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# English Fairy Tales, XI. Cap O' Rushes., sentence 5

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“Catskin” was told by Mr. Burchell to the young Primroses in “The Vicar of Wakefield,'” and has been elaborately studied by the late H. C. Coote, in \_Folk-Lore Record\_, iii.

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**Who acts:** Burchell, late H. C. · **What happens:** tell, study · **To what, where:** Catskin, young Primroses, Folk Lore · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Cap O' Rushes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burchell, late H. C.), 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:pg7439:61:5
# text = “Catskin” was told by Mr. Burchell to the young Primroses in “The Vicar of Wakefield,'” and has been elaborately studied by the late H. C. Coote, in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Catskin	catskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Burchell	Burchell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Primroses	Primrose	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	iobj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Vicar	Vicar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Wakefield	Wakefield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	elaborately	elaborately	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	C.	C.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl:agent	_	_
32	Coote	Coote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
39	Record	Record	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | Burchell  Mr. | Catskin | the young Primroses in the Vicar of Wakefield |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient primrose=Topic |
| 2 | **study** | present · perfect · passive | the late H. C. |  |  | Folk Lore |  | elaborately *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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