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title: Now this is a form of writing not unknown in other branches of liter… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this is a form of writing not unknown in other branches of literature, the _cante-fable_, of which “Aucassin et Nicolette” is the most distinguished example. Who acts: this, form. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 37

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Now this is a form of writing not unknown in other branches of literature, the \_cante-fable\_, of which “Aucassin et Nicolette” is the most distinguished example.

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**Who acts:** this, form · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** form, distinguished example

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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, form), 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:pg7439:71:37
# text = Now this is a form of writing not unknown in other branches of literature, the _cante-fable_, of which “Aucassin et Nicolette” is the most distinguished example.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	cante	cante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Aucassin	Aucassin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	et	et	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
28	Nicolette	Nicolette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this | a form |  |  | now | of writing | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a form | the distinguished example |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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