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title: Of Chambers' twenty-one folk-tales, in the _Popular Rhymes of Scotla… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Of Chambers' twenty-one folk-tales, in the _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_ only five are without interspersed verses. Who acts: Scotland. 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 47

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Of Chambers' twenty-one folk-tales, in the \_Popular Rhymes of Scotland\_ only five are without interspersed verses.

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**Who acts:** Scotland · **What happens:** intersperse, be, rhyme

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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 (Scotland), 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:pg7439:71:47
# text = Of Chambers' twenty-one folk-tales, in the _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_ only five are without interspersed verses.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	interspersed	intersperse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intersperse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | without five interspersed verses | tree rules |
| 3 | **rhyme** |  | Scotland |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: of=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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