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title: Tales_, 377, and authorities there quoted. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tales_, 377, and authorities there quoted. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. Henny-penny., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XX. Henny-penny., sentence 7

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Tales\_, 377, and authorities there quoted.

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**What happens:** quote · **To what, where:** authorities

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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: 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:pg7439:70:7
# text = Tales_, 377, and authorities there quoted.
1	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	377	377	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | authorities |  | there |  | Tales *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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