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title: 42; _Litt. orale_, 23; _Trad. et Superst. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 42; _Litt. orale_, 23; _Trad. et Superst. 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 8

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42; \_Litt. orale\_, 23; \_Trad. et Superst.

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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:pg7439:90:8
# text = 42; _Litt. orale_, 23; _Trad. et Superst.
1	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Litt	Litt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	orale	orale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Trad	trad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
14	et	ET	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	Superst	Superst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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