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title: The opening formula I have taken from Mayhew, _London Labour_, iii. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The opening formula I have taken from Mayhew, _London Labour_, iii. Who acts: I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLI. the Well of the World's End., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XLI. the Well of the World's End., sentence 3

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The opening formula I have taken from Mayhew, \_London Labour\_, iii.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** opening formula, Mayhew

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLI. the Well of the World's End.. 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:pg7439:91:3
# text = The opening formula I have taken from Mayhew, _London Labour_, iii.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	opening	opening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mayhew	Mayhew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Labour	Labour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | I | the opening formula and London Labour *not said here* |  | Mayhew |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent formula=Theme from mayhew=Initial\_Location |

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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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