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title: For I can pipe many kinds of tunes, as folk sometimes find to their… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For I can pipe many kinds of tunes, as folk sometimes find to their cost." Who acts: many kinds, kinds. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 51

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For I can pipe many kinds of tunes, as folk sometimes find to their cost."

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**Who acts:** many kinds, kinds · **What happens:** find, cost

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many kinds, kinds), 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:pg14241:15:51
# text = For I can pipe many kinds of tunes, as folk sometimes find to their cost."
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | many kinds of tunes and folk |  |  |  |  | for pipe; to kinds's cost; sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for pipe=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **cost** |  | kinds *= kind* |  |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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