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title: The jealous stepmother is “universally human.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The jealous stepmother is “universally human.” Who acts: jealous stepmother. 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 6

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The jealous stepmother is “universally human.”

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**Who acts:** jealous stepmother · **What happens:** be

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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 (jealous stepmother), 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:pg7439:87:6
# text = The jealous stepmother is “universally human.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	universally	universally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the jealous stepmother |  |  |  |  | human, universally *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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