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title: _Parallels_.--Sir W. Scott remembered a similar story; see Taylor's… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Sir W. Scott remembered a similar story; see Taylor's _Gammer Grethel, ad fin_. Who acts: Parallels. 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 6

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\_Parallels\_.--Sir W. Scott remembered a similar story; see Taylor's \_Gammer Grethel, ad fin\_.

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**Who acts:** Parallels · **What happens:** remember, see · **To what, where:** similar story, \_ Gammer

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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 (Parallels), 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:pg7439:91:6
# text = _Parallels_.--Sir W. Scott remembered a similar story; see Taylor's _Gammer Grethel, ad fin_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Scott	Scott	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	Taylor	Taylor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Gammer	Gammer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	ad	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Parallels | a similar story |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  | Taylor's \_ Gammer |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gammer=Stimulus |

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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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