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title: Milton's “lubbar-fiend” in _L'Allegro_ has all the characteristics o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Milton's “lubbar-fiend” in _L'Allegro_ has all the characteristics of a Brownie. Who acts: lubbar fiend. 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 7

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Milton's “lubbar-fiend” in \_L'Allegro\_ has all the characteristics of a Brownie.

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**Who acts:** lubbar fiend · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** characteristics

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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 (lubbar fiend), 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:pg7439:88:7
# text = Milton's “lubbar-fiend” in _L'Allegro_ has all the characteristics of a Brownie.
1	Milton	Milton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lubbar	lubbar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	L'Allegro	L'Allegro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	characteristics	characteristic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Brownie	Brownie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Milton's lubbar fiend in L'Allegro | all characteristics of a Brownie |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characteristic=Patient |

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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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