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title: _, p. 326, from a communication by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _, p. 326, from a communication by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. Who acts: S.. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXV. the Fish and the Ring., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXV. the Fish and the Ring., sentence 2

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\_, p. 326, from a communication by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.

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**Who acts:** S. · **What happens:** communicate

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXV. the Fish and the Ring.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (S.), 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:pg7439:85:2
# text = _, p. 326, from a communication by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	326	326	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	communication	communication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	Baring	Baring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Gould	Gould	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **communicate** |  | the S.  Rev. and Gould |  |  |  |  |  | nom communication «communication intransitive»: by=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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