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title: All this helps to give the colloquial and familiar air to the Englis… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All this helps to give the colloquial and familiar air to the English fairy-tale not to mention the dialectal and archaic words and phrases which occur in them. Who acts: this, archaic words. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its depen
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 51

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All this helps to give the colloquial and familiar air to the English fairy-tale not to mention the dialectal and archaic words and phrases which occur in them.

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**Who acts:** this, archaic words · **What happens:** help, give, not mention, occur · **To what, where:** colloquial, English fairy tale, dialectal

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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 (this, archaic words), 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:pg14241:34:51
# text = All this helps to give the colloquial and familiar air to the English fairy-tale not to mention the dialectal and archaic words and phrases which occur in them.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	2	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	colloquial	colloquial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dialectal	dialectal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	archaic	archaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | the colloquial and familiar air | the English fairy tale |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent colloquial=Theme to tale=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | the dialectal and archaic words and phrases |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dialectal=Topic |
| 4 | **occur** | present | archaic words and phrases |  |  |  |  | in phrases *= phrase* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in they=Location |

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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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