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title: From a gloss in the MS. "vitty" = Devonian for "decent," I conclude… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From a gloss in the MS. "vitty" = Devonian for "decent," I conclude the tale is current in Devon. Who acts: I, tale. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 3

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From a gloss in the MS. "vitty" = Devonian for "decent," I conclude the tale is current in Devon.

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**Who acts:** I, tale · **What happens:** conclude, be · **To what, where:** gloss, Devon

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg14241:36:3
# text = From a gloss in the MS. "vitty" = Devonian for "decent," I conclude the tale is current in Devon.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gloss	gloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	MS.	MS.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	vitty	vitty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Devonian	Devonian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	conclude	conclude	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Devon	Devon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | present | I |  |  | a gloss in the MS. vitty |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from gloss=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | the tale |  |  | Devon |  | current *property* | tree rules |

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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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