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title: A florid prose version appeared in _Monthly Chronicle of North Count… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A florid prose version appeared in _Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore_ for May 1890. Who acts: florid prose version. 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 3

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A florid prose version appeared in \_Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore\_ for May 1890.

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**Who acts:** florid prose version · **What happens:** appear · **To what, where:** \_ Monthly Chronicle

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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 (florid prose version), 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:pg7439:83:3
# text = A florid prose version appeared in _Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore_ for May 1890.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	florid	florid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Monthly	Monthly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Chronicle	Chronicle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	1890	1890	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | a florid prose version |  |  | \_ Monthly Chronicle of North Country | may |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chronicle=Location |

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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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