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title: _Parallels_.--There is a tale which is clearly a cousin if not a par… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--There is a tale which is clearly a cousin if not a parent of this in _Kennedy's Fictions_, 54 _seq. Who acts: Parallels. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVII. Kate Crackernuts., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXVII. Kate Crackernuts., sentence 3

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\_Parallels\_.--There is a tale which is clearly a cousin if not a parent of this in \_Kennedy's Fictions\_, 54 \_seq.

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**Who acts:** Parallels · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cousin

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVII. Kate Crackernuts.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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:pg7439:87:3
# text = _Parallels_.--There is a tale which is clearly a cousin if not a parent of this in _Kennedy's Fictions_, 54 _seq.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	Fictions	fiction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	seq	seq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Parallels | a cousin |  |  |  | a parent of this in \_ Kennedy's Fictions *nmod*; clearly *property* | 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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