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title: I have written the introductory paragraph so as to convey some infor… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have written the introductory paragraph so as to convey some information about Brownies, Bogles, and Redcaps, for which Henderson, _l.c. Who acts: I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., sentence 3

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I have written the introductory paragraph so as to convey some information about Brownies, Bogles, and Redcaps, for which Henderson, \_l.c.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** write, convey · **To what, where:** introductory paragraph, information

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7439:88:3
# text = I have written the introductory paragraph so as to convey some information about Brownies, Bogles, and Redcaps, for which Henderson, _l.c.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	introductory	introductory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Brownies	brownie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Bogles	bogle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Redcaps	redcap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
23	Henderson	Henderson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	l.c	l.c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · perfect | I | the introductory paragraph |  |  |  | Henderson l.c *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragraph=Theme |
| 2 | **convey** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | some information |  |  |  | about Brownies and Bogles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent information=Topic |

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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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