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title: _Parallels_.--The first part is clearly the theme of “Hop o' my Thum… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--The first part is clearly the theme of “Hop o' my Thumb,” which Mr. Lang has studied in his “Perrault,” pp. civ.-cxi. Who acts: first part, Thumb. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Molly Whuppie., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXII. Molly Whuppie., sentence 3

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\_Parallels\_.--The first part is clearly the theme of “Hop o' my Thumb,” which Mr. Lang has studied in his “Perrault,” pp. civ.-cxi.

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**Who acts:** first part, Thumb · **What happens:** be, study, hop · **To what, where:** theme, Parallels, Perrault

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Molly Whuppie.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first part, Thumb), 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:pg7439:72:3
# text = _Parallels_.--The first part is clearly the theme of “Hop o' my Thumb,” which Mr. Lang has studied in his “Perrault,” pp. civ.-cxi.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
32	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
34	civ	civ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	cxi	cxi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the first part | the theme |  |  |  | of Hop of my Thumb; clearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **study** | present · perfect · passive |  | Parallels and the theme and pp and civ and cxi |  | Lang's Perrault |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **hop** *in a quote* |  | my Thumb |  |  |  |  |  | nom hop «act 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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