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title: I have transposed the two incidents, as in her version Tommy Grimes… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have transposed the two incidents, as in her version Tommy Grimes was a clever carver and carried about with him a carven leg. Who acts: I, Tommy. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 2

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I have transposed the two incidents, as in her version Tommy Grimes was a clever carver and carried about with him a carven leg.

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**Who acts:** I, Tommy · **What happens:** transpose, be, carry · **To what, where:** two incidents, clever carver, version, carven leg

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Tommy), 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:pg7439:80:2
# text = I have transposed the two incidents, as in her version Tommy Grimes was a clever carver and carried about with him a carven leg.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	transposed	transpose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
12	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	Grimes	Grimes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	carver	carver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	carven	carven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transpose** | present · perfect | I | the two incidents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Tommy | a clever carver |  | her version |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | past | I *not said here* | a carven leg |  |  |  | with Tommy; about *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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