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title: _Source_.--From an eighteenth-century ballad of the Rev. Mr. Lamb of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Source_.--From an eighteenth-century ballad of the Rev. Mr. Lamb of Norham, as given in Prof. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., sentence 1

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\_Source\_.--From an eighteenth-century ballad of the Rev. Mr. Lamb of Norham, as given in Prof.

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** century ballad, Prof

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:83:1
# text = _Source_.--From an eighteenth-century ballad of the Rev. Mr. Lamb of Norham, as given in Prof.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	From	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	eighteenth	eighteenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Norham	Norham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Prof	Prof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  | a century ballad of the Rev. Lamb  Mr. of Norham *not said here* |  | Prof |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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