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title: Do my friendly critics believe that even Campbell's materials had no… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Do my friendly critics believe that even Campbell's materials had not been modified by the various narrators before they reached the great J.F.? Who acts: you, friendly critics, various narrators, materials. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency t
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 15

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Do my friendly critics believe that even Campbell's materials had not been modified by the various narrators before they reached the great J.F.?

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**Who acts:** you, friendly critics, various narrators, materials · **What happens:** do, believe, not modify, reach · **To what, where:** Campbell materials, great J.F · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, friendly critics, various narrators, materials), 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:pg14241:4:15
# text = Do my friendly critics believe that even Campbell's materials had not been modified by the various narrators before they reached the great J.F.?
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	modified	modify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	narrators	narrator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	J.F	J.F	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.?	.?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **believe** | present | my friendly critics |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **modify** | past · perfect · passive | the various narrators | Campbell materials |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **reach** | past | materials *= material* | the great J.F |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent j.f=Theme |

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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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