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title: _Parallels_.--The story forms part of Peele's _Old Wives' Tale_, whe… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--The story forms part of Peele's _Old Wives' Tale_, where the rhyme was Who acts: Parallels, rhyme. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., sentence 3

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\_Parallels\_.--The story forms part of Peele's \_Old Wives' Tale\_, where the rhyme was

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**Who acts:** Parallels, rhyme · **What happens:** form, be · **To what, where:** part

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, rhyme), 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:pg7439:93:3
# text = _Parallels_.--The story forms part of Peele's _Old Wives' Tale_, where the rhyme was
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	Peele	Peele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | Parallels | part of Peele's Old Wives |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | the rhyme |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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