--- title: Of these, thirty-eight are _märchen_ proper, _i.e._, tales with defi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Of these, thirty-eight are _märchen_ proper, _i.e._, tales with definite plot and evolution; ten are sagas or legends locating romantic stories in definite localities; no less than nineteen are drolls or comic anecdotes; four are cumulative stories: six beast tales; while ten are merely ingenious no --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/34/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/34/) / 26 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 26 Of these, thirty-eight are \_märchen\_ proper, \_i.e.\_, tales with definite plot and evolution; ten are sagas or legends locating romantic stories in definite localities; no less than nineteen are drolls or comic anecdotes; four are cumulative stories: six beast tales; while ten are merely ingenious nonsense tales put together in such a form as to amuse children. **Who acts:** thirty eight, legends, six beast tales · **What happens:** be, locate, not be, put together, amuse · **To what, where:** \_ märchen, ten sagas, romantic stories, definite localities, nineteen, cumulative stories 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 (thirty eight, legends, six beast tales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:34:26 # text = Of these, thirty-eight are _märchen_ proper, _i.e._, tales with definite plot and evolution; ten are sagas or legends locating romantic stories in definite localities; no less than nineteen are drolls or comic anecdotes; four are cumulative stories: six beast tales; while ten are merely ingenious nonsense tales put together in such a form as to amuse children. 1 Of of ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 _ _ ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 märchen märchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 6 punct _ _ 11 proper properly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 13 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 i.e. i.e. ADV FW _ 6 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 definite definite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 plot plot NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 evolution evolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 sagas saga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 locating locate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 romantic romantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 definite definite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 localities locality NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 no no ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 conj _ _ 38 than than ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 obl _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 drolls droll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 comic comic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 anecdotes anecdote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 46 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 47 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 48 cumulative cumulative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 50 : : PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 51 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 53 nummod _ _ 52 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ; ; PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 while while SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 56 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 53 appos _ _ 57 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 61 cop _ _ 58 merely merely ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 59 ingenious ingenious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 60 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nmod _ _ 62 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 61 acl _ _ 63 together together ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ _ 64 in in ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 65 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 67 det:predet _ _ 66 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 68 as as SCONJ IN _ 70 mark _ _ 69 to to PART TO _ 70 mark _ _ 70 amuse amuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 advcl _ _ 71 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 70 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | thirty eight and \_ märchen and tales with definite plot and evolution *not said here* | \_ märchen | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | ten sagas or legends | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **locate** | gerund | legends *not said here* | romantic stories | | definite localities | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **be** | | | nineteen | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | thirty eight and \_ märchen and tales with definite plot and evolution *not said here* | | | | | droll *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | thirty eight and \_ märchen and tales with definite plot and evolution | cumulative stories | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | six beast tales | ingenious nonsense tales | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **put together** | participle | | ingenious nonsense tales *not said here* | | such form | | together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in form=Destination | | 9 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | | children | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/34/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/34/27/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/34/)