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title: The “cure by laughing” incident is “common form” in folk-tales (_cf. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The “cure by laughing” incident is “common form” in folk-tales (_cf. Who acts: cure, cure incident. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVII. Lazy Jack., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXVII. Lazy Jack., sentence 6

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The “cure by laughing” incident is “common form” in folk-tales (\_cf.

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**Who acts:** cure, cure incident · **What happens:** laugh, be · **To what, where:** common form, folk tales

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVII. Lazy Jack.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cure, cure incident), 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:pg7439:77:6
# text = The “cure by laughing” incident is “common form” in folk-tales (_cf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** *in a quote* | gerund | the cure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | cure incident | common form |  | folk tales and cf |  |  | tree rules |

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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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