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title: _Remarks_.--It is perhaps unnecessary to give the equations “Laidly… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--It is perhaps unnecessary to give the equations “Laidly Worm = Loathly Worm = Loathsome Dragon,” and “borrowed = changed.” Who acts: Remarks. 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 15

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\_Remarks\_.--It is perhaps unnecessary to give the equations “Laidly Worm = Loathly Worm = Loathsome Dragon,” and “borrowed = changed.”

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**Who acts:** Remarks · **What happens:** be, give, borrow, change · **To what, where:** equations

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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: who acts (Remarks), 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:pg7439:83:15
# text = _Remarks_.--It is perhaps unnecessary to give the equations “Laidly Worm = Loathly Worm = Loathsome Dragon,” and “borrowed = changed.”
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	equations	equation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Loathly	loathly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Loathsome	loathsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
27	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	28	punct	_	_
28	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Remarks |  |  |  |  | perhaps, unnecessary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | Remarks *not said here* | the equations |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent equation=Recipient worm=Theme |
| 3 | **borrow** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **change** *in a quote* | past | Remarks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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