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title: _Remarks_.--If Bow Bells had pealed in the exact and accurate ninete… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--If Bow Bells had pealed in the exact and accurate nineteenth century, they doubtless would have chimed Who acts: Bow Bells. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXI. Dick Whittington., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXI. Dick Whittington., sentence 7

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\_Remarks\_.--If Bow Bells had pealed in the exact and accurate nineteenth century, they doubtless would have chimed

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**Who acts:** Bow Bells · **What happens:** peal, chime · **To what, where:** Remarks, Bells

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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 (Bow Bells), 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:pg7439:81:7
# text = _Remarks_.--If Bow Bells had pealed in the exact and accurate nineteenth century, they doubtless would have chimed
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	Bow	Bow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Bells	Bell	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	pealed	peal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	doubtless	doubtless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	chimed	chime	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peal** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Bow Bells | Remarks *not said here* |  |  | century |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location remark=Theme |
| 2 | **chime** | would · perfect · passive |  | Bells *= bell* |  |  |  | Remarks *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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