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title: _Parallels_.-There is a magic snuff-box with a friendly power in it… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.-There is a magic snuff-box with a friendly power in it in Kennedy's _Fictions of the Irish Celts_, p. 49. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box., sentence 4

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\_Parallels\_.-There is a magic snuff-box with a friendly power in it in Kennedy's \_Fictions of the Irish Celts\_, p. 49.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** magic snuff box

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:67:4
# text = _Parallels_.-There is a magic snuff-box with a friendly power in it in Kennedy's _Fictions of the Irish Celts_, p. 49.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.-	.-	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Fictions	fiction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Celts	Celt	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	49	49	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a magic snuff box |  |  |  | with a friendly power in power | 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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