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title: The legends are not of a very romantic kind, and the _märchen_ are o… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The legends are not of a very romantic kind, and the _märchen_ are often humorous in character. Who acts: legends, märchen. 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 28

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The legends are not of a very romantic kind, and the \_märchen\_ are often humorous in character.

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**Who acts:** legends, märchen · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** character

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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 (legends, märchen), 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:pg14241:34:28
# text = The legends are not of a very romantic kind, and the _märchen_ are often humorous in character.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	märchen	märchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	humorous	humorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the legends |  |  |  |  | of a romantic kind | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the märchen |  |  | character |  | humorous, often *property* | 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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