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title: Newell, who is collecting the English folk-tales that still remain c… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Newell, who is collecting the English folk-tales that still remain current in New England. Who acts: Newell. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 11

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Newell, who is collecting the English folk-tales that still remain current in New England.

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**Who acts:** Newell · **What happens:** collect, remain · **To what, where:** English folk tales

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Newell), 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:pg14241:34:11
# text = Newell, who is collecting the English folk-tales that still remain current in New England.
1	Newell	Newell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
17	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | present · progressive | Newell | the English folk tales |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | present |  | the English folk tales |  |  | still | current *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute |

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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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