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title: _Parallels_.--This curious droll is extremely widespread; references… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--This curious droll is extremely widespread; references are given in Cosquin, i. 204 _seq. Who acts: Parallels. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 2

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\_Parallels\_.--This curious droll is extremely widespread; references are given in Cosquin, i. 204 \_seq.

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**Who acts:** Parallels · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** references, Cosquin

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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:pg7439:66:2
# text = _Parallels_.--This curious droll is extremely widespread; references are given in Cosquin, i. 204 _seq.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	droll	droll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	nsubj	_	_
19	204	204	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	seq	seq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Parallels |  |  |  |  | extremely, widespread *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present · passive |  | references |  | Cosquin |  | 204 and seq *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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