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title: Just as the Anglo-Irish Pale preserves more of the pronunciation of… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as the Anglo-Irish Pale preserves more of the pronunciation of Shakespeare's time, so it is probable that Anglo-Irish stories preserve best those current in Shakespeare's time in English. Who acts: Irish Pale, Pale, Irish stories. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 22

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Just as the Anglo-Irish Pale preserves more of the pronunciation of Shakespeare's time, so it is probable that Anglo-Irish stories preserve best those current in Shakespeare's time in English.

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**Who acts:** Irish Pale, Pale, Irish stories · **What happens:** preserve, be, pronounce · **To what, where:** more, current, time

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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 (Irish Pale, Pale, Irish stories), 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:pg14241:34:22
# text = Just as the Anglo-Irish Pale preserves more of the pronunciation of Shakespeare's time, so it is probable that Anglo-Irish stories preserve best those current in Shakespeare's time in English.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	Anglo	Anglo	X	AFX	_	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Pale	Pale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	preserves	preserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	Anglo	Anglo	X	AFX	_	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	preserve	preserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
28	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
29	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | present | the Irish Pale | more |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | present | Pale |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **preserve** | present | Irish stories | that current |  |  | time | well *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pronounce** |  |  | Shakespeare's time |  |  |  |  | nom pronunciation «communication 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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