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title: I have actually at times introduced or deleted whole incidents, have… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have actually at times introduced or deleted whole incidents, have given another turn to a tale, or finished off one that was incomplete, while I have had no scruple in prosing a ballad or softening down over-abundant dialect. Who acts: I, scruple. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Josep
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 11

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I have actually at times introduced or deleted whole incidents, have given another turn to a tale, or finished off one that was incomplete, while I have had no scruple in prosing a ballad or softening down over-abundant dialect.

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**Who acts:** I, scruple · **What happens:** have, introduce, delete, give, finish off, be · **To what, where:** times, whole incidents, turn, tale, one, scruple

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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 (I, scruple), 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:pg14241:4:11
# text = I have actually at times introduced or deleted whole incidents, have given another turn to a tale, or finished off one that was incomplete, while I have had no scruple in prosing a ballad or softening down over-abundant dialect.
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	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	deleted	delete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	incomplete	incomplete	ADV	RB	_	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	parataxis	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	scruple	scruple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	prosing	prose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	softening	soften	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	conj	_	_
40	down	down	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	over-abundant	over-abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  | time | actually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **introduce** | participle |  | times *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **delete** | participle |  | whole incidents |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present · perfect |  | another turn | a tale |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent turn=Theme to tale=Recipient |
| 5 | **finish off** | participle |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality one=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | incomplete *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | present · perfect | I | no scruple |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scruple=Patient |
| 8 | **prose** | gerund | no scruple *not said here* | a ballad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **soften down** | gerund | no scruple *not said here* | over-abundant dialect |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dialect=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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