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title: I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession. Who acts: I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XL. Fairy Ointment., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XL. Fairy Ointment., sentence 2

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I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** christen, euphemis · **To what, where:** anonymous midwife, profession

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XL. Fairy Ointment.. 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:pg7439:90:2
# text = I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession.
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	christened	christen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	anonymous	anonymous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	midwife	midwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	euphemised	euphemis	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	profession	profession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **christen** | present · perfect | I | the anonymous midwife |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent midwife=Theme |
| 2 | **euphemis** | past | I *not said here* | Hartland's profession |  |  |  |  | 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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