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title: _King Lear_, act iii. sc. 4, _ad fin_. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _King Lear_, act iii. sc. 4, _ad fin_. Who acts: _. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 18

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\_King Lear\_, act iii. sc. 4, \_ad fin\_.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** act · **To what, where:** iii

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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 (\_), 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:pg7439:71:18
# text = _King Lear_, act iii. sc. 4, _ad fin_.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Lear	Lear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
9	sc.	sc.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | infinitive | \_ and King Lear | iii |  |  |  | sc. and ad fin *obl* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent iii=Eventuality |

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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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