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title: With the present instalment the tale of English Fairy Stories that a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With the present instalment the tale of English Fairy Stories that are likely to obtain currency among the young folk is complete. Who acts: English Fairy Stories, tale. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 6

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With the present instalment the tale of English Fairy Stories that are likely to obtain currency among the young folk is complete.

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**Who acts:** English Fairy Stories, tale · **What happens:** be, obtain, tell · **To what, where:** currency · **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 (English Fairy Stories, tale), 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:pg14241:34:6
# text = With the present instalment the tale of English Fairy Stories that are likely to obtain currency among the young folk is complete.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	instalment	instalment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	currency	currency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | English Fairy Stories |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | English Fairy Stories *not said here* | currency |  |  |  | among the young folk | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset currency=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the tale of English Fairy Stories |  |  |  |  | with the present instalment; complete *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** |  | English Fairy Stories |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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