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title: If his forthcoming book equals in charm, scholarship, and thoroughne… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If his forthcoming book equals in charm, scholarship, and thoroughness his delightful _Games and Songs of American Children_, the Anglo-American folk-tale will be enriched indeed. Who acts: American Children. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 12

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If his forthcoming book equals in charm, scholarship, and thoroughness his delightful \_Games and Songs of American Children\_, the Anglo-American folk-tale will be enriched indeed.

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**Who acts:** American Children · **What happens:** enrich, sing · **To what, where:** American folk tale

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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 (American Children), 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:pg14241:34:12
# text = If his forthcoming book equals in charm, scholarship, and thoroughness his delightful _Games and Songs of American Children_, the Anglo-American folk-tale will be enriched indeed.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	forthcoming	forthcoming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	equals	equal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	scholarship	scholarship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	thoroughness	thoroughness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
25	Anglo	Anglo	X	AFX	_	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	enriched	enrich	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
34	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **enrich** | future · passive |  | the American folk tale |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **sing** |  | American Children |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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