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title: There can be little doubt that Edgar, in his mad scene in _King Lear… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There can be little doubt that Edgar, in his mad scene in _King Lear_, is alluding to our tale when he breaks into the lines: Who acts: little doubt, Edgar, doubt, our. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 15

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There can be little doubt that Edgar, in his mad scene in \_King Lear\_, is alluding to our tale when he breaks into the lines:

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**Who acts:** little doubt, Edgar, doubt, our · **What happens:** be, allude, break, tell · **To what, where:** little doubt, lines · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little doubt, Edgar, doubt, our), 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:pg7439:71:15
# text = There can be little doubt that Edgar, in his mad scene in _King Lear_, is alluding to our tale when he breaks into the lines:
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
7	Edgar	Edgar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Lear	Lear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	alluding	allude	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | can | little doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **allude** | present · progressive | Edgar | little doubt *not said here* |  |  |  | to our tale | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | present | doubt |  |  |  |  | into the lines *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into line=Result |
| 4 | **tell** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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