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title: 391, told by a lad in a workhouse; (ii) several versions in 7 _Notes… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 391, told by a lad in a workhouse; (ii) several versions in 7 _Notes and Queries_, iii. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XLII. Master of All Masters., sentence 2

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391, told by a lad in a workhouse; (ii) several versions in 7 \_Notes and Queries\_, iii.

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**What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** several versions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters.. 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:pg7439:92:2
# text = 391, told by a lad in a workhouse; (ii) several versions in 7 _Notes and Queries_, iii.
1	391	391	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	workhouse	workhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ii	ii	NUM	LS	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Queries	query	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | several versions in 7 |  |  |  | by a lad in a workhouse | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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