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title: _Parallels_.--Whittington's cat has made the fortune of his master i… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Whittington's cat has made the fortune of his master in all parts of the Old World, as Mr. W. A. Clouston, among others, has shown, _Popular Tales and Fictions_, ii. Who acts: Parallels. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXI. Dick Whittington., with its dependency 
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXI. Dick Whittington., sentence 3

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\_Parallels\_.--Whittington's cat has made the fortune of his master in all parts of the Old World, as Mr. W. A. Clouston, among others, has shown, \_Popular Tales and Fictions\_, ii.

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**Who acts:** Parallels · **What happens:** make, show · **To what, where:** cat, Parallels

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXI. Dick Whittington.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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:pg7439:81:3
# text = _Parallels_.--Whittington's cat has made the fortune of his master in all parts of the Old World, as Mr. W. A. Clouston, among others, has shown, _Popular Tales and Fictions_, ii.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
32	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	Fictions	fiction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect · passive | Parallels *not said here* | Whittington's cat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fortune=Product |
| 2 | **show** | present · perfect · passive |  | Parallels |  |  |  | Popular Tales and Fictions *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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