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title: And many a tale she could tell of the "good folk" calling to each ot… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 42

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And many a tale she could tell of the "good folk" calling to each other in the oak-trees, and the twinkling lights hopping on to the very window sill, on dark nights; but in spite of the loneliness, she lived on from year to year in the little house, perhaps because she was never asked to pay any rent for it.

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**Who acts:** many tale, good folk, twinkling lights, tale, house · **What happens:** tell, call, hop on, live on, not ask, pay · **To what, where:** each, oak trees, window sill, spite, house, rent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many tale, good folk, twinkling lights, tale), 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:pg14241:16:42
# text = And many a tale she could tell of the "good folk" calling to each other in the oak-trees, and the twinkling lights hopping on to the very window sill, on dark nights; but in spite of the loneliness, she lived on from year to year in the little house, perhaps because she was never asked to pay any rent for it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	14	obl	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	sill	sill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
49	on	on	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
60	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
61	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux:pass	_	_
63	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
64	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	advcl	_	_
65	to	to	PART	TO	_	66	mark	_	_
66	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	xcomp	_	_
67	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	68	det	_	_
68	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obj	_	_
69	for	for	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | a many tale |  |  |  |  | of the good folk; perhaps *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | the good folk *not said here* |  | each | the oak trees |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 3 | **hop on** | gerund | the twinkling lights |  |  | the window sill | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sill=Destination |
| 4 | **live on** | past | tale |  |  | spite of the loneliness | year | in the little house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location |
| 5 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive |  | house |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | house *not said here* | any rent |  |  |  | for rent | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent rent=Asset for it=Theme |
| 7 | **spite** |  |  | the loneliness |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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