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title: The fun consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The fun consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in jaw-breaking sentences almost equal to the celebrated “She stood at the door of the fish-sauce shop, welcoming him in.” Who acts: fun. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. Henny-penny., with its dependency tree 
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# English Fairy Tales, XX. Henny-penny., sentence 2

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The fun consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in jaw-breaking sentences almost equal to the celebrated “She stood at the door of the fish-sauce shop, welcoming him in.”

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**Who acts:** fun · **What happens:** consist, celebrate, stand, welcome in, avoid · **To what, where:** avoidance, door, Australia, pronouns

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. Henny-penny.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fun), 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:pg7439:70:2
# text = The fun consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in jaw-breaking sentences almost equal to the celebrated “She stood at the door of the fish-sauce shop, welcoming him in.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	avoidance	avoidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	pronouns	pronoun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	breaking	breaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	sauce	sauce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	welcoming	welcome	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | the fun |  |  | the avoidance of all pronouns and which results |  | in breaking sentences | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | participle | the fun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | fun |  |  | the door of the sauce shop |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 4 | **welcome in** *in a quote* | gerund | fun *not said here* | Australia |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **avoid** |  |  | all pronouns and which results |  |  |  |  | nom avoidance «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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