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title: In the following Notes, I have continued my practice of giving (1) _… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the following Notes, I have continued my practice of giving (1) _Source_ where I obtained the various tales. Who acts: I, practice, my. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 57

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In the following Notes, I have continued my practice of giving (1) \_Source\_ where I obtained the various tales.

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**Who acts:** I, practice, my · **What happens:** follow, continue, give, obtain, practice · **To what, where:** practice, following Notes, 1, various 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, practice, 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:pg14241:34:57
# text = In the following Notes, I have continued my practice of giving (1) _Source_ where I obtained the various tales.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Source	Source	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | present · perfect | I | my practice |  | the following Notes |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent practice=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | my practice *not said here* | 1 |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **obtain** | past | I | the various tales |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 5 | **practice** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom practice «act 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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