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title: The rhythmical phrases stick in their memories; they can remember th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The rhythmical phrases stick in their memories; they can remember the exact phraseology of the English tales much better, I find, than that of the Grimms' tales, or even of the Celtic stories. Who acts: rhythmical phrases, phrases, I, Grimms. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 53

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The rhythmical phrases stick in their memories; they can remember the exact phraseology of the English tales much better, I find, than that of the Grimms' tales, or even of the Celtic stories.

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**Who acts:** rhythmical phrases, phrases, I, Grimms · **What happens:** stick, remember, find, tell · **To what, where:** memories, exact phraseology, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rhythmical phrases, phrases, I, Grimms), 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:pg14241:34:53
# text = The rhythmical phrases stick in their memories; they can remember the exact phraseology of the English tales much better, I find, than that of the Grimms' tales, or even of the Celtic stories.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rhythmical	rhythmical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	phrases	phrase	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	phraseology	phraseology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | present | the rhythmical phrases |  |  | phrases's memories |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in memory=Destination |
| 2 | **remember** | can | phrases *= phrase* | the exact phraseology of the English tales |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent phraseology=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** |  | the Grimms |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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