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title: The prosaic-minded may substitute “Up-late-and-little-food.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The prosaic-minded may substitute “Up-late-and-little-food.” Who acts: prosaic minded. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXII. the Strange Visitor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXII. the Strange Visitor, sentence 4

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The prosaic-minded may substitute “Up-late-and-little-food.”

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**Who acts:** prosaic minded · **What happens:** substitute

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXII. the Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prosaic minded), 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:pg7439:82:4
# text = The prosaic-minded may substitute “Up-late-and-little-food.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	substitute	substitute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **substitute** | may | the prosaic minded |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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