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title: Meanwhile the eighty-seven tales (representing some hundred and twen… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the eighty-seven tales (representing some hundred and twenty variants) in my two volumes must represent the English folk-tale as far as my diligence has been able to preserve it at this end of the nineteenth century. Who acts: eighty tales, diligence. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tale
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 15

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Meanwhile the eighty-seven tales (representing some hundred and twenty variants) in my two volumes must represent the English folk-tale as far as my diligence has been able to preserve it at this end of the nineteenth century.

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**Who acts:** eighty tales, diligence · **What happens:** represent, be, preserve · **To what, where:** hundred variants, English folk tale, diligence, end

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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 (eighty tales, diligence), 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:pg14241:34:15
# text = Meanwhile the eighty-seven tales (representing some hundred and twenty variants) in my two volumes must represent the English folk-tale as far as my diligence has been able to preserve it at this end of the nineteenth century.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	diligence	diligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
33	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | gerund | the eighty tales *not said here* | hundred variants |  |  |  | in my two volumes | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot variant=Theme in volume=Attribute |
| 2 | **represent** | must | the eighty tales | the English folk tale |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | my diligence |  |  |  |  | able, far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **preserve** | to-infinitive | my diligence *not said here* | diligence |  |  | at this end of the nineteenth century |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |

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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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