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title: To make my long story short, I shall follow poor Jack, and let the o… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To make my long story short, I shall follow poor Jack, and let the other two take their chance, for I don't think there was much good in them. Who acts: I, other two, brothers. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, with its dependency tree and 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 113

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To make my long story short, I shall follow poor Jack, and let the other two take their chance, for I don't think there was much good in them.

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**Who acts:** I, other two, brothers · **What happens:** make, follow, let, take, not think, be · **To what, where:** long story, poor Jack, chance · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other two, brothers), 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:pg14241:26:113
# text = To make my long story short, I shall follow poor Jack, and let the other two take their chance, for I don't think there was much good in them.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my long story |  |  |  | short *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product |
| 2 | **follow** | shall | I | poor Jack |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | present | the other two | brothers's chance |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **chance** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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