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title: In Southey's version there is nothing of Little Silverhair as the he… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In Southey's version there is nothing of Little Silverhair as the heroine: she seems to have been introduced in a metrical version by G. N., much be-praised by Southey. Who acts: nothing, folk, G. N, Southey. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears., with its dep
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# English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 6

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In Southey's version there is nothing of Little Silverhair as the heroine: she seems to have been introduced in a metrical version by G. N., much be-praised by Southey.

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**Who acts:** nothing, folk, G. N, Southey · **What happens:** be, seem, introduce, praise · **To what, where:** version, metrical version, much

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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 (nothing, folk, G. N, 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:pg7439:68:6
# text = In Southey's version there is nothing of Little Silverhair as the heroine: she seems to have been introduced in a metrical version by G. N., much be-praised by Southey.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Southey	Southey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Silverhair	silverhair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	G.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	praised	praise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Southey	Southey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | nothing |  |  | Southey's version; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in version=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | present | folk |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **introduce** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | G. N |  |  | a metrical version |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **praise** | infinitive · passive | Southey | much |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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