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title: _Parallels_.--None, as the story was invented by Southey. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--None, as the story was invented by Southey. Who acts: Southey. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 2

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\_Parallels\_.--None, as the story was invented by Southey.

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**Who acts:** Southey · **What happens:** invent · **To what, where:** story

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Southey), 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:pg7439:68:2
# text = _Parallels_.--None, as the story was invented by Southey.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Southey	Southey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past · passive | Southey | the story |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |

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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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