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title: _Parallels_.--The ballad of “Kempe Owein” is a more general version… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--The ballad of “Kempe Owein” is a more general version which “The Laidly Worm” has localised near Bamborough. Who acts: ballad. 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 8

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\_Parallels\_.--The ballad of “Kempe Owein” is a more general version which “The Laidly Worm” has localised near Bamborough.

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**Who acts:** ballad · **What happens:** be, localise · **To what, where:** more general version, Laidly Worm, Bamborough

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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 (ballad), 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:pg7439:83:8
# text = _Parallels_.--The ballad of “Kempe Owein” is a more general version which “The Laidly Worm” has localised near Bamborough.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Kempe	Kempe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Owein	Owein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
15	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	localised	localise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Bamborough	Bamborough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the ballad of Kempe Owein | a more general version |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **localise** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Laidly Worm |  | Bamborough |  |  | 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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