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title: After what Miss Fison (who, as I have recently learned, was the coll… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After what Miss Fison (who, as I have recently learned, was the collector of _Tom Tit Tot_ and _Cap o' Rushes_), Mrs. Balfour, and Mrs. Gomme have done in the way of collecting among the folk, we may still hope for substantial additions to our stock to be garnered by ladies from the less frequented 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 9

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After what Miss Fison (who, as I have recently learned, was the collector of \_Tom Tit Tot\_ and \_Cap o' Rushes\_), Mrs. Balfour, and Mrs. Gomme have done in the way of collecting among the folk, we may still hope for substantial additions to our stock to be garnered by ladies from the less frequented portions of English soil.

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**Who acts:** Miss, Mrs., way, we, ladies, our · **What happens:** learn, be, do, collect, hope, garner · **To what, where:** collector, way, portions · **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 (Miss, Mrs., way, we), 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:pg14241:34:9
# text = After what Miss Fison (who, as I have recently learned, was the collector of _Tom Tit Tot_ and _Cap o' Rushes_), Mrs. Balfour, and Mrs. Gomme have done in the way of collecting among the folk, we may still hope for substantial additions to our stock to be garnered by ladies from the less frequented portions of English soil.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	Fison	Fison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Tit	Tit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	Tot	Tot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
33	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	Gomme	Gomme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
45	among	among	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	still	still	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	additions	addition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
60	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	aux:pass	_	_
61	garnered	garner	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	ccomp	_	_
62	by	by	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	_
64	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	67	mark	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	67	advmod	_	_
67	frequented	frequent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	advcl	_	_
68	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	obj	_	_
69	of	of	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present · perfect | Miss |  |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the collector |  |  |  | of Tom Tit and Cap of Rushes and Mrs. | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | Mrs. | the collector *not said here* |  | the way |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collector=Eventuality |
| 4 | **collect** | gerund | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the folk | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **hope** | may | we |  |  |  | still | for substantial additions to our stock | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **garner** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | ladies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **frequent** | past | ladies *not said here* | portions of English soil |  |  |  | less *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **stock** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession 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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