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title: _ Child, _Ballads_, i. 415-9; ii. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ Child, _Ballads_, i. 415-9; ii. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Red Ettin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 17

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\_ Child, \_Ballads\_, i. 415-9; ii.

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Red Ettin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:73:17
# text = _ Child, _Ballads_, i. 415-9; ii.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
9	415-9	415-9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ii	ii	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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