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title: If I had reckoned in the tales current in the English pale of Irelan… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If I had reckoned in the tales current in the English pale of Ireland, as well as those in Lowland Scots, there would have been even less missing. Who acts: I, those. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 19

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If I had reckoned in the tales current in the English pale of Ireland, as well as those in Lowland Scots, there would have been even less missing.

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**Who acts:** I, those · **What happens:** reckon, be · **To what, where:** 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 (I, those), 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:pg14241:34:19
# text = If I had reckoned in the tales current in the English pale of Ireland, as well as those in Lowland Scots, there would have been even less missing.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · perfect | I |  |  | the tales |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would · perfect | those |  |  | there |  | less, missing *property* | tree rules |

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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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