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title: Abroad it is the Grimms' first tale, while frogs who would a-wooing… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Abroad it is the Grimms' first tale, while frogs who would a-wooing go are discussed by Prof. Who acts: well, Prof. 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 9

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Abroad it is the Grimms' first tale, while frogs who would a-wooing go are discussed by Prof.

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**Who acts:** well, Prof · **What happens:** be, discuss · **To what, where:** first tale, frogs

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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 (well, Prof), 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:pg7439:91:9
# text = Abroad it is the Grimms' first tale, while frogs who would a-wooing go are discussed by Prof.
1	Abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Grimms	grimm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	wooing	wooing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Prof	Prof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | well | the Grimms's first tale |  |  |  | abroad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | would · passive | Prof | frogs |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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