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title: Meanwhile my collection must stand for the nucleus of the English fo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile my collection must stand for the nucleus of the English folk-tale, and we can at any rate judge of its general spirit and tendencies from the eighty-seven tales now before the reader. Who acts: collection. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales,
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 25

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Meanwhile my collection must stand for the nucleus of the English folk-tale, and we can at any rate judge of its general spirit and tendencies from the eighty-seven tales now before the reader.

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**Who acts:** collection · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** rate judge

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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 (collection), 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:pg14241:34:25
# text = Meanwhile my collection must stand for the nucleus of the English folk-tale, and we can at any rate judge of its general spirit and tendencies from the eighty-seven tales now before the reader.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	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	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	tendencies	tendency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	eighty	eighty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
36	before	before	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **stand** | must | my collection |  |  | any rate judge of collection's general spirit and tendencies from the eighty seven tales | before the reader; now | for the nucleus of the English folk tale; meanwhile *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at judge=Location |

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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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