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title: Silverhair seems to have become a favourite, and in Mrs. Valentine's… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Silverhair seems to have become a favourite, and in Mrs. Valentine's version of “The Three Bears,” in “The Old, Old Fairy Tales,” the visit to the bear-house is only the preliminary to a long succession of adventures of the pretty little girl, of which there is no trace in the original (and this in 
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# English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 7

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Silverhair seems to have become a favourite, and in Mrs. Valentine's version of “The Three Bears,” in “The Old, Old Fairy Tales,” the visit to the bear-house is only the preliminary to a long succession of adventures of the pretty little girl, of which there is no trace in the original (and this in “The Old, Old Fairy Tales.”

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**Who acts:** Silverhair, visit, trace · **What happens:** seem, become, be, adventure · **To what, where:** favourite, preliminary, Old Old Fairy Tales, pretty little girl

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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 (Silverhair, visit, trace), 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:pg7439:68:7
# text = Silverhair seems to have become a favourite, and in Mrs. Valentine's version of “The Three Bears,” in “The Old, Old Fairy Tales,” the visit to the bear-house is only the preliminary to a long succession of adventures of the pretty little girl, of which there is no trace in the original (and this in “The Old, Old Fairy Tales.”
1	Silverhair	silverhair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	favourite	favourite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	Valentine	Valentine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Bears	Bear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	preliminary	preliminary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	obl	_	_
57	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	58	expl	_	_
58	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	_
59	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	60	det	_	_
60	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	_
64	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	58	nsubj	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
68	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	74	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
70	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	74	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
72	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	74	amod	_	_
73	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	compound	_	_
74	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Silverhair |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive · perfect | Silverhair *not said here* | a favourite |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the visit to the bear house | the preliminary |  | the Old Old Fairy Tales |  | to a long succession of adventures of the pretty little girl | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | no trace in the original |  |  | there |  | of the preliminary | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **adventure** |  |  | the pretty little girl |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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