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title: _Source_.--I tell this as it was told me in Australia, somewhere abo… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Source_.--I tell this as it was told me in Australia, somewhere about the year 1860. Who acts: I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk., sentence 1

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\_Source\_.--I tell this as it was told me in Australia, somewhere about the year 1860.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** Source, me, Australia · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7439:63:1
# text = _Source_.--I tell this as it was told me in Australia, somewhere about the year 1860.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
20	1860	1860	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | Source |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | Source | me | Australia |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic |

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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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