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title: _; the most interesting of these is from Gervase of Tilbury (xiii. c… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _; the most interesting of these is from Gervase of Tilbury (xiii. cent.), _Otia Imper. 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 5

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\_; the most interesting of these is from Gervase of Tilbury (xiii. cent.), \_Otia Imper.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** interesting Gervase

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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: 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:pg7439:90:5
# text = _; the most interesting of these is from Gervase of Tilbury (xiii. cent.), _Otia Imper.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Gervase	Gervase	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tilbury	Tilbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	xiii	xiii	NUM	LS	_	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
16	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Otia	Otia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
22	Imper	Imper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | interesting Gervase and Otia |  | of Tilbury | 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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