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title: In the course of the tale the chief thing to be noticed is the occur… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the course of the tale the chief thing to be noticed is the occurrence of rhymes in the prose narrative, tending to give the appearance of a _cante-fable_. Who acts: chief thing. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 43

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In the course of the tale the chief thing to be noticed is the occurrence of rhymes in the prose narrative, tending to give the appearance of a \_cante-fable\_.

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**Who acts:** chief thing · **What happens:** notice, be, tend, give · **To what, where:** occurrence, course, appearance

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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 (chief thing), 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:pg14241:34:43
# text = In the course of the tale the chief thing to be noticed is the occurrence of rhymes in the prose narrative, tending to give the appearance of a _cante-fable_.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	cante	cante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **notice** | to-infinitive · passive | the chief thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the chief thing | the occurrence |  | the course |  | of the tale; of rhymes in the prose narrative | tree rules |
| 3 | **tend** | gerund | the chief thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | the chief thing *not said here* | the appearance of a fable \_ |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme |

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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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