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title: The result of my investigations confirms me in my impression that th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The result of my investigations confirms me in my impression that the scope of the English folk-tale should include all those current among the folk in English, no matter where spoken, in Ireland, the Lowlands, New England, or Australia. Who acts: result, scope, my. A sentence of «More English Fairy
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 20

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The result of my investigations confirms me in my impression that the scope of the English folk-tale should include all those current among the folk in English, no matter where spoken, in Ireland, the Lowlands, New England, or Australia.

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**Who acts:** result, scope, my · **What happens:** confirm, include, speak, result, investigate, impress · **To what, where:** me, impression, Ireland, investigations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (result, scope, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg14241:1800`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:34:20
# text = The result of my investigations confirms me in my impression that the scope of the English folk-tale should include all those current among the folk in English, no matter where spoken, in Ireland, the Lowlands, New England, or Australia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	investigations	investigation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	confirms	confirm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	scope	scope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	include	include	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	_
24	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
34	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Lowlands	Lowlands	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | present | the result of my investigations | me |  | my impression |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Topic |
| 2 | **include** | should | the scope of the English folk tale | my impression |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  | Ireland and the Lowlands and New England or Australia |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **result** |  |  | my investigations |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **investigate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom investigation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **impress** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom impression «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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