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title: This is one of the points that settles the date of the play; James I… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This is one of the points that settles the date of the play; James I. was declared King of Great _Britain_, October 1604. Who acts: This, points, October. 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 20

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This is one of the points that settles the date of the play; James I. was declared King of Great \_Britain\_, October 1604.

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**Who acts:** This, points, October · **What happens:** be, settle, declare · **To what, where:** one, date, James

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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 (This, points, October), 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:pg7439:71:20
# text = This is one of the points that settles the date of the play; James I. was declared King of Great _Britain_, October 1604.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	settles	settle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl:agent	_	_
27	1604	1604	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | one |  |  |  | of the points | tree rules |
| 2 | **settle** | present | the points | the date of the play |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme date=Location |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive | October | James |  |  | october |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme king=Attribute |

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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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