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title: I have mainly been on the search for signs of diffusion rather than… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have mainly been on the search for signs of diffusion rather than of "survivals" of antiquarian interest, though I trust it will be found I have not neglected these. Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 61

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I have mainly been on the search for signs of diffusion rather than of "survivals" of antiquarian interest, though I trust it will be found I have not neglected these.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, be, trust, find, not neglect, sign · **To what, where:** search, these, diffusion, antiquarian interest · **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 (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:pg14241:34:61
# text = I have mainly been on the search for signs of diffusion rather than of "survivals" of antiquarian interest, though I trust it will be found I have not neglected these.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	16	cc	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	survivals	survival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	antiquarian	antiquarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	neglected	neglect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	ccomp	_	_
33	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | the search |  | for signs of diffusion rather survivals of antiquarian interest; mainly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trust** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | future · passive |  | search |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **neglect** | present · perfect | I | these |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 6 | **sign** |  |  | diffusion |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **survive** *in a quote* |  |  | antiquarian interest |  |  |  |  | nom survival «state 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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