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title: Altogether one third of our collection gives evidence in favour of t… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Altogether one third of our collection gives evidence in favour of the _cante-fable_ theory which I adduced in my notes to _Childe Rowland_. Who acts: one third, theory, my. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 47

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Altogether one third of our collection gives evidence in favour of the \_cante-fable\_ theory which I adduced in my notes to \_Childe Rowland\_.

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**Who acts:** one third, theory, my · **What happens:** give, adduce, favour, note · **To what, where:** evidence, favour, Childe, notes, cante fable

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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 (one third, theory, my), 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:pg14241:34:47
# text = Altogether one third of our collection gives evidence in favour of the _cante-fable_ theory which I adduced in my notes to _Childe Rowland_.
1	Altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	cante	cante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
18	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	adduced	adduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | one third of our collection | evidence |  | favour of the cante fable |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme |
| 2 | **adduce** | past | theory |  | Childe | my notes |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **favour** |  |  | the cante fable |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **note** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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