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title: My folk-lore friends look on with sadness while they view me laying… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My folk-lore friends look on with sadness while they view me laying profane hands on the sacred text of my originals. Who acts: lore friends, friends. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 10

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My folk-lore friends look on with sadness while they view me laying profane hands on the sacred text of my originals.

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**Who acts:** lore friends, friends · **What happens:** look on, view, lay · **To what, where:** me, profane hands, sacred text

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lore friends, friends), 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:pg14241:4:10
# text = My folk-lore friends look on with sadness while they view me laying profane hands on the sacred text of my originals.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	view	view	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	profane	profane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	originals	original	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look on** | present | My lore friends |  |  |  |  | with sadness | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **view** | present | friends *= friend* | me |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lay** | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* | profane hands |  | the sacred text of my originals |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on text=Destination |

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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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