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title: Why may I not have the same privilege as any other story-teller, esp… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Why may I not have the same privilege as any other story-teller, especially when I know the ways of story-telling as she is told in English, at least as well as a Devonshire or Lancashire peasant? Who acts: I, ways. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its depe
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 16

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Why may I not have the same privilege as any other story-teller, especially when I know the ways of story-telling as she is told in English, at least as well as a Devonshire or Lancashire peasant?

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**Who acts:** I, ways · **What happens:** not have, know, tell · **To what, where:** same privilege, ways, defence, English · **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 (I, ways), 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:pg14241:4:16
# text = Why may I not have the same privilege as any other story-teller, especially when I know the ways of story-telling as she is told in English, at least as well as a Devonshire or Lancashire peasant?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	obl	_	_
35	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	19	advmod	_	_
36	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	fixed	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	Devonshire	Devonshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Lancashire	Lancashire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | may | I | the same privilege |  |  |  | as any other story teller | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent privilege=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present | I | the ways |  |  |  | as a Devonshire peasant; especially *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus as peasant=Attribute |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the ways *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | defence |  | English |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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