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title: Turn again, Whittington, Thrice and a half Lord Mayor of London. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Turn again, Whittington, Thrice and a half Lord Mayor of London. Who acts: you. 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 8

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Turn again, Whittington, Thrice and a half Lord Mayor of London.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** turn

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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 (you), 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:pg7439:81:8
# text = Turn again, Whittington, Thrice and a half Lord Mayor of London.
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Thrice	Thrice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	conj	_	_
10	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: 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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