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title: _Parallels_.--The lover visiting his spouse in guise of a bird, is a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--The lover visiting his spouse in guise of a bird, is a frequent _motif_ in folk-tales. Who acts: lover. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIX. Earl Mar's Daughter., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXIX. Earl Mar's Daughter., sentence 2

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\_Parallels\_.--The lover visiting his spouse in guise of a bird, is a frequent \_motif\_ in folk-tales.

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**Who acts:** lover · **What happens:** visit, be · **To what, where:** spouse, guise, frequent \_ motif

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIX. Earl Mar's Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover), 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:pg7439:79:2
# text = _Parallels_.--The lover visiting his spouse in guise of a bird, is a frequent _motif_ in folk-tales.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
7	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	spouse	spouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	motif	motif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | gerund | the lover *not said here* | Book's spouse |  | guise of a bird |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spouse=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the lover | a frequent \_ motif |  |  |  |  | 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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