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title: The preponderance of the comic element is marked, and it is clear th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The preponderance of the comic element is marked, and it is clear that humour is a characteristic of the English _folk_. Who acts: humour. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 27

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The preponderance of the comic element is marked, and it is clear that humour is a characteristic of the English \_folk\_.

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**Who acts:** humour · **What happens:** mark, be · **To what, where:** preponderance, characteristic

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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 (humour), 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:pg14241:34:27
# text = The preponderance of the comic element is marked, and it is clear that humour is a characteristic of the English _folk_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	preponderance	preponderance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | present · passive |  | the preponderance of the comic element |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | humour | a characteristic and folk |  |  |  | of the English | 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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