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title: Child's _Ballads_; with a few touches and verses from the more ancie… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Child's _Ballads_; with a few touches and verses from the more ancient version “Kempion.” 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 2

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Child's \_Ballads\_; with a few touches and verses from the more ancient version “Kempion.”

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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:pg7439:83:2
# text = Child's _Ballads_; with a few touches and verses from the more ancient version “Kempion.”
1	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Kempion	kempion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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