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title: _Parallels_.--Getting out of an ogre's clutches by playing on the si… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Getting out of an ogre's clutches by playing on the simplicity of his wife, occurs in “Molly Whuppie” (No. xxii.), and its similars. Who acts: Parallels, ogre. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 4

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\_Parallels\_.--Getting out of an ogre's clutches by playing on the simplicity of his wife, occurs in “Molly Whuppie” (No. xxii.), and its similars.

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**Who acts:** Parallels, ogre · **What happens:** get out, play, occur, clutch · **To what, where:** clutches, simplicity, Molly

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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 (Parallels, ogre), 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:pg7439:80:4
# text = _Parallels_.--Getting out of an ogre's clutches by playing on the simplicity of his wife, occurs in “Molly Whuppie” (No. xxii.), and its similars.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	clutches	clutch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	Whuppie	Whuppie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	No.	no.	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	xxii	xxii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	similars	similar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | gerund | Parallels and xxii's similars *not said here* | a ogre's clutches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | Parallels and xxii's similars *not said here* |  |  | the simplicity of Tommy's wife |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **occur** | present |  |  |  | Molly |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in molly=Location |
| 4 | **clutch** |  | a ogre |  |  |  |  |  | nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=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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