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title: He also refers to European Variants, p. 311, which could now be larg… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He also refers to European Variants, p. 311, which could now be largely supplemented from Cosquin, i. 53-4, ii. Who acts: Gould. 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 6

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He also refers to European Variants, p. 311, which could now be largely supplemented from Cosquin, i. 53-4, ii.

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**Who acts:** Gould · **What happens:** refer, supplement · **To what, where:** p., Cosquin

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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 (Gould), 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:pg7439:89:6
# text = He also refers to European Variants, p. 311, which could now be largely supplemented from Cosquin, i. 53-4, ii.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	311	311	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	supplemented	supplement	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	nsubj	_	_
21	53-4	53-4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | Gould |  |  |  |  | to European Variants | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to variant=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **supplement** | could · passive |  | p. |  | Cosquin | now | largely *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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