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title: _Parallels_.--“The Red Etin” is referred to in _The Complaynt of Sco… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--“The Red Etin” is referred to in _The Complaynt of Scotland_, about 1548. 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 6

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\_Parallels\_.--“The Red Etin” is referred to in \_The Complaynt of Scotland\_, about 1548.

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**What happens:** refer · **To what, where:** Red Etin, \_

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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:pg7439:73:6
# text = _Parallels_.--“The Red Etin” is referred to in _The Complaynt of Scotland_, about 1548.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
8	Etin	Etin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Complaynt	Complaynt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	1548	1548	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present · passive |  | the Red Etin |  | \_ |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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