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title: The colloquial manner rarely rises to the dignified, and the essence… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The colloquial manner rarely rises to the dignified, and the essence of the folk-tale manner in English is colloquial. Who acts: colloquial manner, essence. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 32

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The colloquial manner rarely rises to the dignified, and the essence of the folk-tale manner in English is colloquial.

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**Who acts:** colloquial manner, essence · **What happens:** rise, dignify, be

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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 (colloquial manner, essence), 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:pg14241:34:32
# text = The colloquial manner rarely rises to the dignified, and the essence of the folk-tale manner in English is colloquial.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	colloquial	colloquial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
8	dignified	dignify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	essence	essence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	colloquial	colloquial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | the colloquial manner |  |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dignify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the essence of the tale manner in English |  |  |  |  | to the dignified colloquial | 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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