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title: This is a green mound some 100 feet in length and 35 in breadth at i… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This is a green mound some 100 feet in length and 35 in breadth at its broadest part. Who acts: This. 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 65

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This is a green mound some 100 feet in length and 35 in breadth at its broadest part.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** green mound, length

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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), 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:pg7439:71:65
# text = This is a green mound some 100 feet in length and 35 in breadth at its broadest part.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	breadth	breadth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	broadest	broad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | a green mound and some 100 feet |  | length in breadth at breadth's broadest part |  |  | 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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