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title: _Remarks_.--Mr. Miacca seems to have played the double _rôle_ of a d… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--Mr. Miacca seems to have played the double _rôle_ of a domestic Providence. Who acts: Miacca. 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 6

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\_Remarks\_.--Mr. Miacca seems to have played the double \_rôle\_ of a domestic Providence.

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**Who acts:** Miacca · **What happens:** seem, play · **To what, where:** Remarks, \_ rôle \_

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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 (Miacca), 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:pg7439:80:6
# text = _Remarks_.--Mr. Miacca seems to have played the double _rôle_ of a domestic Providence.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	_	_	X	GW	_	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	rôle	rôle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Providence	providence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Miacca  Mr. | Remarks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive · perfect | Miacca  Mr. *not said here* | the \_ rôle \_ of a domestic Providence |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent \_=Theme |

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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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