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title: For some general remarks on the English Folk-Tale and previous colle… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For some general remarks on the English Folk-Tale and previous collectors, I must refer to the introductory observations added to the Notes and References of _English Fairy Tales_, in the third edition. Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales,
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 5

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For some general remarks on the English Folk-Tale and previous collectors, I must refer to the introductory observations added to the Notes and References of \_English Fairy Tales\_, in the third edition.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** refer, add · **To what, where:** third edition, introductory observations, Fairy Tales

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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 (I), 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:pg14241:34:5
# text = For some general remarks on the English Folk-Tale and previous collectors, I must refer to the introductory observations added to the Notes and References of _English Fairy Tales_, in the third edition.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	collectors	collector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	introductory	introductory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	observations	observation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	References	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **refer** | must | I |  |  | the third edition |  | for some general remarks on the English Folk Tale and previous collectors; to the introductory observations | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to observation=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the introductory observations *not said here* |  |  |  | to the Notes and References of Fairy Tales | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to note=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **refer** |  |  | Fairy Tales |  |  |  |  | nom reference «communication 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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