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title: I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I. This becom… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I. This becomes not our royal dignity, and savours of treason in thee." Who acts: I, thou, This. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 30

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I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I. This becomes not our royal dignity, and savours of treason in thee."

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**Who acts:** I, thou, This · **What happens:** hear, keep, not become, savour · **To what, where:** idea, greater state, royal dignity, treason, thee

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou, This), 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:pg14241:28:30
# text = I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I. This becomes not our royal dignity, and savours of treason in thee."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keepest	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
15	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	savours	savour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | I | idea |  |  |  | of thee | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **keep** | present | thou | greater state |  |  |  | than I. | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **become** | present | This | our royal dignity |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **savour** |  |  | treason |  | thee |  |  | nom savour «cognition transitive»: of=patient in=place |

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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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