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title: There is every indication that they form but a scanty survival of th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is every indication that they form but a scanty survival of the whole _corpus_ of such tales which must have existed in this country. Who acts: indication, TALES, such tales. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 16

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There is every indication that they form but a scanty survival of the whole \_corpus\_ of such tales which must have existed in this country.

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**Who acts:** indication, TALES, such tales · **What happens:** be, form, exist, survive · **To what, where:** country, whole \_ corpus

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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 (indication, TALES, such tales), 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:pg14241:34:16
# text = There is every indication that they form but a scanty survival of the whole _corpus_ of such tales which must have existed in this country.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	indication	indication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	scanty	scanty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	survival	survival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	corpus	corpus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	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 | **be** | present | every indication |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | present | TALES *= tale* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **exist** | must · perfect | such tales |  |  | this country |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 4 | **survive** |  |  | the whole \_ corpus of such tales |  |  |  |  | nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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