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title: Mr. Baring-Gould, it is well-known, has since become a distinguished… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Baring-Gould, it is well-known, has since become a distinguished writer of fiction. Who acts: Baring. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., sentence 13

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Mr. Baring-Gould, it is well-known, has since become a distinguished writer of fiction.

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**Who acts:** Baring · **What happens:** know, become · **To what, where:** rain, distinguished writer

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baring), 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:pg7439:89:13
# text = Mr. Baring-Gould, it is well-known, has since become a distinguished writer of fiction.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Baring	Baring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Gould	Gould	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	since	since	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fiction	fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | rain |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | present · perfect | Baring  Mr. and Gould | a distinguished writer of fiction |  |  |  | since *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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