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title: _Parallels_.--Rev. W. Gregor gives a Scotch version under the title… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Rev. W. Gregor gives a Scotch version under the title “The Clever Apprentice,” in _Folk-Lore Journal_, vii. Who acts: W.. 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 4

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\_Parallels\_.--Rev. W. Gregor gives a Scotch version under the title “The Clever Apprentice,” in \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, vii.

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**Who acts:** W. · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Scotch version, title

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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: who acts (W.), 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:pg7439:92:4
# text = _Parallels_.--Rev. W. Gregor gives a Scotch version under the title “The Clever Apprentice,” in _Folk-Lore Journal_, vii.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Rev.	Rev.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Gregor	Gregor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Scotch	scotch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Journal	Journal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | W.  Rev. | a Scotch version |  | the title and the Clever Apprentice |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme |

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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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