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title: Wherever there is community of language, tales can spread, and it is… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever there is community of language, tales can spread, and it is more likely that tales should be preserved in those parts where English is spoken with most of dialect. Who acts: community, tales. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 21

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Wherever there is community of language, tales can spread, and it is more likely that tales should be preserved in those parts where English is spoken with most of dialect.

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**Who acts:** community, tales · **What happens:** be, spread, preserve, speak · **To what, where:** tales, parts, English · **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 (community, 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:pg14241:34:21
# text = Wherever there is community of language, tales can spread, and it is more likely that tales should be preserved in those parts where English is spoken with most of dialect.
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
26	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | community of language |  |  | there |  | wherever *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** | can | tales |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | community |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **preserve** | should · passive |  | tales |  | that parts |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | English |  |  |  | with most of dialect | 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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