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title: “Bogle” is a provincial word for “spectre,” and is analogous to the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Bogle” is a provincial word for “spectre,” and is analogous to the Welsh _bwg_, “goblin,” and to the English insect of similar name, and still more curiously to the Russian “Bog,” God, after which so many Russian rivers are named. Who acts: Bogle. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacob
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 84

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“Bogle” is a provincial word for “spectre,” and is analogous to the Welsh \_bwg\_, “goblin,” and to the English insect of similar name, and still more curiously to the Russian “Bog,” God, after which so many Russian rivers are named.

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**Who acts:** Bogle · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** provincial word, many Russian rivers

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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 (Bogle), 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:pg7439:71:84
# text = “Bogle” is a provincial word for “spectre,” and is analogous to the Welsh _bwg_, “goblin,” and to the English insect of similar name, and still more curiously to the Russian “Bog,” God, after which so many Russian rivers are named.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bogle	Bogle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	spectre	spectre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	analogous	analogous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bwg	bwg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
39	curiously	curiously	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	appos	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Bog	bog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
47	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
49	after	after	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	obl	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bogle | a provincial word and the English insect of similar name |  |  |  | for spectre | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Bogle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Welsh and bwg; analogous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | present · passive |  | many Russian rivers |  |  | after a provincial word and the English insect of similar name |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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