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title: _ “Kate Crackernuts” (No. xxxvii.) is a pleasant contrast to this. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ “Kate Crackernuts” (No. xxxvii.) is a pleasant contrast to this. Who acts: Kate Crackernuts. 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 9

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\_ “Kate Crackernuts” (No. xxxvii.) is a pleasant contrast to this.

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**Who acts:** Kate Crackernuts · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pleasant contrast

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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 (Kate Crackernuts), 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:pg7439:93:9
# text = _ “Kate Crackernuts” (No. xxxvii.) is a pleasant contrast to this.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Crackernuts	crackernut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	xxxvii	xxxvii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kate Crackernuts | a pleasant contrast |  |  |  | to this | tree rules |

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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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