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title: It is of course curious to contrast Mr. Batten's frontispiece with t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is of course curious to contrast Mr. Batten's frontispiece with the central chamber of the How, but the essential features are the same. Who acts: passage, essential features. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 70

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It is of course curious to contrast Mr. Batten's frontispiece with the central chamber of the How, but the essential features are the same.

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**Who acts:** passage, essential features · **What happens:** be, contrast · **To what, where:** frontispiece

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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 (passage, essential features), 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:pg7439:71:70
# text = It is of course curious to contrast Mr. Batten's frontispiece with the central chamber of the How, but the essential features are the same.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	fixed	_	_
5	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	contrast	contrast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Batten	Batten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	frontispiece	frontispiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | passage |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **contrast** | to-infinitive | passage *not said here* | Batten  Mr.'s frontispiece |  |  |  | with the central chamber | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent frontispiece=Patient with chamber=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the essential features |  |  |  |  | same *property* | 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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