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title: “The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow” in _Uncle Remus_ is similar to that o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow” in _Uncle Remus_ is similar to that of Johnny-Cake. Who acts: Fate. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. Johnny-cake., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXVIII. Johnny-cake., sentence 6

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“The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow” in \_Uncle Remus\_ is similar to that of Johnny-Cake.

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**Who acts:** Fate · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. Johnny-cake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fate), 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:pg7439:78:6
# text = “The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow” in _Uncle Remus_ is similar to that of Johnny-Cake.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fate	Fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Sparrow	Sparrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
12	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Fate of Jack Sparrow  Mr. in Uncle |  |  |  |  | to that; similar *property* | 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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