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title: _Parallels_.--Halliwell, p. 166, gives a similar tale of “An Oxford… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Halliwell, p. 166, gives a similar tale of “An Oxford Student,” whose sweetheart saw him digging her grave. Who acts: Parallels, sweetheart, Student, Oxford Student. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Mr. Fox., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# English Fairy Tales, XXVI. Mr. Fox., sentence 5

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\_Parallels\_.--Halliwell, p. 166, gives a similar tale of “An Oxford Student,” whose sweetheart saw him digging her grave.

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**Who acts:** Parallels, sweetheart, Student, Oxford Student · **What happens:** give, see, dig, tell · **To what, where:** similar tale, Student, grave · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Mr. Fox.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, sweetheart, Student, Oxford Student), 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:pg7439:76:5
# text = _Parallels_.--Halliwell, p. 166, gives a similar tale of “An Oxford Student,” whose sweetheart saw him digging her grave.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Halliwell	Halliwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	166	166	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Student	Student	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Parallels  Halliwell | a similar tale of a Oxford Student |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | sweetheart | Student |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dig** | gerund | Student *not said here* | sweetheart's grave |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** |  | a Oxford Student |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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