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title: But even on the lofty heights of folk-lore science I am not entirely… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But even on the lofty heights of folk-lore science I am not entirely defenceless. Who acts: I. 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 14

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But even on the lofty heights of folk-lore science I am not entirely defenceless.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not be

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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), 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:pg14241:4:14
# text = But even on the lofty heights of folk-lore science I am not entirely defenceless.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	defenceless	defenceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | of folk lore science; defenceless, entirely *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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