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title: Another point of interest in English folk-narrative is the repetitio… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Another point of interest in English folk-narrative is the repetition of verbs of motion, "So he went along and went along and went along." Who acts: point, third. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 48

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Another point of interest in English folk-narrative is the repetition of verbs of motion, "So he went along and went along and went along."

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**Who acts:** point, third · **What happens:** be, go along, point · **To what, where:** repetition, interest

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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 (point, third), 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:pg14241:34:48
# text = Another point of interest in English folk-narrative is the repetition of verbs of motion, "So he went along and went along and went along."
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	So	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
22	along	along	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	along	along	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	along	along	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | another point of interest in English folk narrative | the repetition |  |  |  | of verbs of motion | tree rules |
| 2 | **go along** *in a quote* | past | third |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go along** *in a quote* | past | third *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go along** *in a quote* | past | third *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **point** |  |  | interest in English folk narrative |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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