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title: I can tell you, I _do_ feel that GRAND--" — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I can tell you, I _do_ feel that GRAND--" Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 21

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I can tell you, I \_do\_ feel that GRAND--"

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** tell, do, feel · **To what, where:** you, GRAND · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg14241:20:21
# text = I can tell you, I _do_ feel that GRAND--"
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	_	_	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
10	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	GRAND	GRAND	PROPN	NNP	_	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | I *not said here* | GRAND |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grand=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:** «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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