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title: This would bring the tale close to the Grimms' “Wolf and Seven Littl… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This would bring the tale close to the Grimms' “Wolf and Seven Little Kids,” (No. 5). Who acts: This. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Three Little Pigs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XIV. Three Little Pigs., sentence 6

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This would bring the tale close to the Grimms' “Wolf and Seven Little Kids,” (No. 5).

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** tale

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Three Little Pigs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg7439:64:6
# text = This would bring the tale close to the Grimms' “Wolf and Seven Little Kids,” (No. 5).
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Grimms	grimm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | would | This | the tale |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |

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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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