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description: _Parallels_.--This is the fullest and most dramatic version I know of the Grimm's "Town Musicians of Bremen" (No. 27). Who acts: This, I. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Jack and His Comrades., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIV. Jack and His Comrades., sentence 2

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\_Parallels\_.--This is the fullest and most dramatic version I know of the Grimm's "Town Musicians of Bremen" (No. 27).

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**Who acts:** This, I · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** fullest version

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Jack and His Comrades.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I), 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:pg7885:48:2
# text = _Parallels_.--This is the fullest and most dramatic version I know of the Grimm's "Town Musicians of Bremen" (No. 27).
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	fullest	full	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
12	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Town	town	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Musicians	Musician	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the fullest version |  |  |  | of the Grimm's Town Musicians of Bremen | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | I | the fullest version *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer version=Stimulus |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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