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title: _Parallels_.--Scarcely more than a variant of the “Old Woman and her… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Scarcely more than a variant of the “Old Woman and her Pig” (No. iv.), which see. Who acts: Parallels, Old Woman. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIV. Cat and Mouse., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXIV. Cat and Mouse., sentence 2

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\_Parallels\_.--Scarcely more than a variant of the “Old Woman and her Pig” (No. iv.), which see.

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**Who acts:** Parallels, Old Woman · **What happens:** see, vary

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIV. Cat and Mouse.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, Old Woman), 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:pg7439:84:2
# text = _Parallels_.--Scarcely more than a variant of the “Old Woman and her Pig” (No. iv.), which see.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	iv	iv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Parallels |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **vary** |  | the Old Woman and p.'s Pig |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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